Rainbows

April 24th, 2007

Once I finished the kerchief swatch (after laboring over how to line up the stitches) I couldn’t wait to cast-on with the soy-silk/wool yarn to start the project. I was going to show a picture of the swatch so you could see the lace pattern in action, but today I have even better. I’ve done probably 1/3 of the kerchief, and everything just seems to be falling into place just right on this project.

It’s so satisfying when you’re creating something totally from scratch when it just seems to work better than you imagined. Navajo plying this yarn to maintain the color stretches was surely the right way to go.  I’ve even got this beautiful heathered transition between each color due to the two colors mixing at those points during the spinning. I can’t claim credit for that, it just happened. However, I will definitely attempt to do so on purpose when I choose to make a similar self-striping yarn from pre-dyed roving.

I cannot tell you how much of a pleasure it is to knit this yarn. First of all, it’s of my own creation, and that in itself carries its own satisfaction. Second, it is holding up amazingly well, and feels great between my fingers. I’m guessing that this will block really well, and it’s showing the stitch definition beautifully.

And look at those colors!

I learned a whole lot while going through the process of charting the lace pattern. It took me at least four tries to get the pattern from written instructions on a rectangular piece, to charted instructions on an ever increasing triangle. I hope to write a little something on how it works, the way the stitches line up, and what I did to get this charted at some point. Hopefully that will prevent someone else from having to take the time I did.

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