Angelica
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Saturday, June 13, 2015
Seed Stitch Scarf
I'm a bit behind on posting the Stitch Scarves (which I posted about here: http://wabisabikomorebi.blogspot.com/2015/04/stitch-scarves.html), considering the fact that I'm starting the third one, so here's the first one. This one is just a simple Seed Stitch scarf. I did it in an interesting Lion Brand yarn called Alpine Wool that I came across. It's 100% wool and is considered a roving yarn. The results were really clean and smooth considering how loosely the yarn was spun.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Golden Cowl
Towards the end of winter I decided to try and make myself a cowl that I had seen on a blog. Well, it ended up being a bit of a lesson in choosing yarn for a project and why sometimes you just can't modify a pattern and end up with good results, no matter how simple the pattern or the modification. I can still wear it, it just doesn't lay right on my neck. I know that my two major mistakes with this were not casting on the number of stitches that the pattern called for (I was using the long-tail cast on method and I found out that I didn't set aside enough yarn to do all the stitches) because I didn't think that would effect the outcome as much as it did. I also found out that no matter how nice a yarn feels in the store, I think that for any future projects that call for a bulky weight yarn, I'm going to use one that is not so smooth as this one is, because trying to deal with the ends that had to be woven in was very difficult as the yarn did not seem to hold onto the stitches around it so well. I'll probably try to redo this pattern at some point and compare results.
Angelica
(All photographs ©Angelica Ricci and may not be used without permission.)
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