Monday, August 10, 2009

Another Ishbel

One of the things I love about knitting is the wonderful people you get to meet :-) Juliet ( of Artists Palette Yarns ) and I go to the same knitting group on a Tuesday evening, and wouldn't have otherwise met each other. Juliet is going to be a vendor at next weekend's Fibrefest, and wants her yarns knitted into projects as a showcase for customers to see how a yarn looks and feels when knitted up, which is how I came to knit this Ishbel for her I'm so pleased I have, not only have I tried a new yarn, I've used different colours for me ( although they are hard to photograph accurately ).

The yarn is Sweet Feet, which is a fingering weight yarn. Each skein contains 400m, and is a mix of 80% merino and 20% Bamboo. It is beautifully soft, and has a lovely drape, perfect for shawls and scarves. I used 4mm needles.

I made 2 small modifications to the pattern. I found the bind-off tight for blocking last time and so knitted rather than purled the bind off row ( as you do with a fcs ) which helped enormously. I also found last time that the eyelets along the top of the shawl varied in size because of doing them on a purl row, so instead of k3, yon at the beginning of every row I did k2, yon, k1 which solved the problem regarding the difference in size although I'm not sure about the appearance of the eyelet







7 comments:

RooKnits said...

oooh pretty - I agree about the eyelets. Great idea.

Barbra Szabrowicz said...

WOW Love it :)

Tanya said...

That is so delicate and stunning. Good idea about the YOs. I guess you could also pick them up on the wrong side row - I did that method on some socks recently and it worked well.

Ruthcrafts said...

Lovely! a great solution for the YOs too... I seem to remember that I wrapped my yarn twice to lengthen some of them :)

Linda said...

Thats beautiful. The yarn looks great to nkit with.

Linz Knits Now said...

It's simply stunning, love the colourway too...


...will you be tempted to add to your stash at fibrefest???

Probably Jane said...

What a lovely and unusual colourway - your Ishbel sets it off perfectly!