Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Crazy for Colorwork

Since the fair isle sweater, I seem to have just gone crazy for colorwork. I just got Vol 3 of Vogue Knitting Stitchionary, and I love it. It's just what I wanted. I wish there were several more books like it so I could have a collection of thousands of colorwork patterns. But in the meantime I am using it to make some fair isle gloves. I'm knitting them flat because I didn't want to figure out how to do the thumb gusset while working fair isle. I'll sew up the side and leave a space for the thumb and then add the thumb and fingers on after, I think/hope. This is where I am so far. Just started last night. I LOVE the yarn I used for this. Frog Tree Alpaca's Merino. Alpaca makes me a little itchy, though not on my hands I guess. I used it for the headbands below, and I bought some more as comfort yarn right after dropping my dead bunny at the vet (post coming soon).


These are a couple of head bands I did for my upcoming ski trip. One for me and one for my companion, I guess. I got the snowflake motif from this site . I LOVE the yarn I used for this.




And this slip stitch pattern. I love slip stitch colorwork. So easy because you only do one color per row. I got the pattern here. But we aware that there is a typo on rounds 8 and 9, and the asterisk should be after the first slipped stitch. Also, worsted weight on size 10.5s is very loose. I used size 8s and cast on 90 stitches. Karabella Aurora 8 is the gray and Dolce Mohair Rigato is the self-striping mohair/acrylic blend.

4 comments:

AR said...

Your headbands are so cute. Your bunny died? I'm so sorry! That sucks.

Memeeflye said...

I just did my first faire isle hat- it is contagious- one day I'll be coordinated enough to do it two hand style. Nice headbands- have fun!

Jane said...

Beware: colorwork can be seriously addictive. It took me ten years to recover from my last spell. I couldn't knit anything unless I had 40 colors going (tried to knit the Great Barrier Reef once). On the up side, it's great therapy for affairs of the heart. It sort of brings you home to a more pleasant entanglements....

Nik said...

It's been a while since I've tried colorwork. That headband is nice.