Girl on the Rocks

Mohair Boucle scarf November 19, 2006

Filed under: Finished Projects, Scarves and Shawls — karrie @ 11:52 am

When I was in Melbourne, Australia a few months ago my friends and I made a trek out to Marta’s yarn store. It was a truly lovely place, full of Marta’s hand dyed yarns.

Marta was there to help us with our yarn selections and displayed infinite patience while we ran around her store like 6 year olds hopped up on Dr.pepper.

I picked up a center pull ball of about 8 ounces of Mohair boucle, dyed in a chocolately brown color.

yarn with a US 10 needle for scale

I just finished knitting it up into a scarf. I used 22 stitches across on size 10 needles and cranked along in garter stitch until I ran out of yarn. The yarn has such an interesting texture that the garter rows aren’t that visible in the finished scarf.

It was the first time that i have ever knit anything with a boucle yarn, and i am really satisfied with the feel of the finished object. It was a little tricky to knit with. Let’s just say that I am happy that I did not drop any stitches and have to look for them.

I’m cheating March 13, 2006

Filed under: Karrie's Current Projects — karrie @ 7:56 pm

I’m cheating on all of my other knitting projects
with this:

It’s a little bit of handpainted Colonia that I bought just to see if i liked the color. I love it…. Look how it is making a double helix in the color pattern. Man, variegated yarns hypnotize me. It is like they are all self-patterning, you just don’t know what the pattern will be. Usually even when i have solids, I wish they were the kettle-dyed imperfectly colored type. May, you’ve got to love that - c’mon!

By the way, the pattern is My So Called Scarf. I only cast on 26 stitches, and I altered the directions for the knit rows to be k1 *sl1, k1, yo, psso two stitches on right needle* k1. It was just easier for me to figure out what was going on when I did it like that. That general slipped-stitch pattern is also what gives the socks I am knitting a fake-cable look. okay, they don’t really look anything like cables. we’ll just call them textured ribs.

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Christmas scarf mania November 21, 2004

Filed under: Karrie's Current Projects, Scarves and Shawls — karrie @ 12:23 pm

While playing hookey on Friday afternoon, my
friend and I went down to article pract for a yarn fix. I picked up two ballsof GGH Amelie to make a scarf, and it was done by saturday afternoon.
ta-da!

This yarn is so super-soft. As with all of the
scarves that i make, it is a little too wide, and a little too short, but i
still like it. I used the drop-stitch scarf pattern from Stitch-N-BitchNation.

I also started a lacy
scarf out of some mohair that i bought at lambtown USA. I am using what i
believe is called “the old shale” pattern. I got it in a free berroco pattern.

Wow! it is so photogenic! It is a little slow
going, but i am enjoying it.

I have
also made a little progress on a felted tote for my mom - i started knitting the
bottom. I am progressing slowly, because i know that I don’t have appropriate
needles to use for the sides of the bag. i need size 13 circular needles.
Though I have a ton of straight needles, i really don’t have many circs. Seems
to me that i should order a set of Denise Needles for myself and never have to buy
a circular needle again…. that’s a good plan, right?

Diagonal Scarf March 15, 2004

Filed under: Karrie's Current Projects — karrie @ 2:08 pm

This is one of the first things I ever made. I bought a kit to make this
scarf at the Stitches West knitting convention in 2003. It is made from Noro
Silk Garden. The scarf is knit on the diagonal - every row you decrease a few
at the beginning, and add a few at the end. It was the first time I had seen any
of the Noro yarn, and I am still totally in love with it.