2011
has been a year
of merrily knitting along
at a consistently rapid pace.
and somehow my secretarial skills
(really my organizational skills)
lagged sadly
behind.
so in honor of 2012 being just around the corner,
i’m attempting to get caught up.
today i added:
6 nearly new,
1 newly translated
1 link (‘cobblestone vest’
now available for individual sale)
(see pic at right).
you can check them all out here.
whew! and
now back to knitting.
yee-ha!
thanks to amy detjen‘s post here,
double knitting just got that much easier.
my duplicity cowl is meant to be a starter project.
if you can knit in the round, then double knitting
is the only new skill required.
and here are a couple
of other double knit projects
that i’d like to try my hands at:
amy christoffer‘s ‘feather in your cap’
(knit here by indigotweed)
and kalinumba‘s
yasmin fingerless mittens.
these look, to me,
like magnified henna tatoos
must be really warm, too
as they’re 2 layers thick.
what double knit pattern
do you really want to cast on?
today knitcircus released their winter 2011 issue.
sold as part of that collection is my ‘duplicity’.
inspired by the stark branches of winter as
they set against the cool midday sky,
i wanted it to be a clutch
but it balked
and became a reversible buttoned cowl instead.
it’s double knit so that there are no strands to be
carried across
the long stretches of color.
this also allows the mc and cc
to swap places on opposite sides.
i was thrilled for the opportunity
to try classic elite yarn’s
eco-friendly yarn
‘woodland’.
it’s softness
was a surprise
since it’s partly made
of nettles, but soft and fairly silky it is.
the wool takes dye differently
than the nettle fibers do,
so the yarn has a way of looking solid & heathery at the very same time
…already my mind is racing to work out the details
of the next project i will knit in this fiber
whose nettles belie it’s smoothness.
now, there’s some duplicity for you.
