latest testknits part 2

...me again...
in july I had the pleasure to do my first testknit for miyayo 
a wonderful shawl, crescent-shaped with some lace, ribbings and
beautiful ruffles
you'll never get bored with this

the yarn is handdyed (by myself...ha!)

i only dyed 3 skeins (approx. 600 meters), what should have 

been enough yarn to complete this shawl - but i ran out of 

yarn right before the BO, so I bound off with another yarn

in a lighter green

pattern. lin-lin-shawl by Yoko Johnston

yarn. wollknoll-strickgarn-8/3 undyed (dyed with ashford dyes)

simultanuously i did a testknit for justyna (lete) 

when i first saw her new cardi design i fell in love:

beautiful lace, casusal shaping, top-down construction

...it contains everything i love....

my first yarn choice was a big mistake....

i had some drops-alpaca in my stash for a while and thought

this might match the gauge,...it did, but it was way too fuzzy

in the end

the stitch pattern wasn't that easy for me (don't know why, but 

sometimes such patterns crack my head....)

...when i decided to use another yarn, i had done over one half 

of the cardi!!!! so i had a real huge testing swatch (hahaha!)

the second attempt, with handdyed fingering, went smooth

and unbelievably easy ;)

pattern. casual-lace by Justyna Lorkowska

yarn. wollknoll-kammgarn-20/6, handdyed with ashford dyes

....more tomorrow (i really hope so :)

isa m.