Friday, August 30, 2013

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.


2 comments:

  1. That Lin-Lin Shawl is lovely! I like the different color bind off. It adds a little zing.

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  2. Superschön ! Ich bin auch von Deinem Blog und Deinen Projekten total begeistert :-)))
    Liebe Grüße
    Birgit

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