ethereal wrap

I have had this beautiful, light, cream-brown lace-yarn (Lanas Stop Hudson) for some years but could not find the right pattern for it.

I did not want to make another one of those frill scarfs, so I improvised:
My skein was 10,5m. I cut it into 6X1,70m pieces and crocheted them together using an acrylic yarn (Stylecraft Special DK) of the same cream colour, same high quality, light, soft yarn.

So here it is, an ethereal wrap/scarf for a-night-out!

Link to raverly 

a capucine...

...for Sophia.

My niece has been asking for a flap-ear hat since some time, so when I found "capucine" I knew that this was the right pattern.

I made the rib section "fair isle knitting 2X2".
This was the first time that I tried my hands on fair isle knitting: I have been dreading and admiring it for years... I followed youtube video instructions and I am so very pround to have done it!

I was afraid that one skein of the (absolutely bliss to watch while knitting) malabrigo mecha would not be enough, so I improvised by using a beige yarn as complementary.
I followed the original pattern and here is the happy result!

Neddles: Nr 6
Yarn: Malabrigo Mecha (color Arco Iris) and Zeeman Julia (color beige)

* Link to raverly


And some more photos (before adding the tassels):

to start a babette blanket

I have some balls of yarn mostly wool, scratchy, of various gauges and colours- and I was looking for a simple pattern to use them all (and get rid of them!).
So I started a Babette Blanket.

I do not like crochet as much as I like knitting, but my upper arms would do with some relaxing these days...

* the pattern in raverly

sewanee

Pattern: Sewanee, by Beth Bradford
Yarn: Shilasdair (40% Angora, 40% Merino, 10% Camel, 10% Cashmere), naturally dyed (color: sea-green)

This naturally dyed, fingering yarn, was posted to Greece by the very polite owners of The Skye Shilasdair Shop in the Isle of Skye!

* Here is the link to raverly 
   and more photos.

Cabled Hand Warmers

In the midst of summer...was when I finally found the time to hand-wash some all-wool mittens! Then I had to try them on and dream of winter.

* link to pattern in raverly

shalom (rose)

This is my second shalom cardigan, in pink, with no sleeves-as I did not have enough yarn. I only used 2 skeins of Zeeman Julia yarn (340m), purchased last February in Kortrjik, Belgium.

* Here is the link to raverly with my mods

shalom (cream)

Shalom cardigan is ready...

...it only needs three big buttons (and the winter to come!).

* Here is the link to raverly with my modifications

shalom

Shalom cardigan proceeding...

one can never have enough yarn

Recent treasur-acquisition from a visit to Plectorium in Larissa.
This daily trip to my favorite yarn shop was the best birthday present I have had  ever!!

dragontail (rose)

I made two dragontail scarves, the blue one offered to a friend as a present (becaused she loved the color) and this water-melon colored-for me.

This pattern does not compliment this yarn as much as I would like, and the yarn is also a bit scratchy. But in any way, it is a very easy and very impressive pattern. I might give it a try with a bulkier, winter yarn.

* Link in raverly

dragontail (blue)

The pattern is Drachenschwanz/Dragontail Scarf by Solwey Hauptmann, and
the yarn is "Hundertwasser", a fingering 75% wool-25% polyamide, by Opal Yarns.

* Link in raverly

Crazy Eights Dishcloth

This is not a lolipop...
...this is a dishcloth-whatever that means (*).

I tried this pattern just to find out how a circle is knitted-and it was very easy-just a series of short rows repeated 8 times.
I knitted the white first, in coton yarn, and then I tried combinind white and red because I thought it would be funny, lolipopy and christmacy!

(*) Dish-cloth is not a drying-dish-towel as (I thought that) the name suggests, nor is it used to dry the kitchen tablea area. It is the cloth used to wash the dishes. Lesson learned!

Pattern:  crazy eights dishcloth by Julie Tarsha

shalom

(A cardigan in process.)