We've had visitors this last week so not much knitting time (argh!) but here's a little progress shot of the front of Picot. I'm enjoying working with the denim yarn - it has the very distinctive smell that new jeans had when I was a child and is pretty crisp and regular, plus I love the picot cast-on!
My hands are tinged a gentle shade of blue now despite scrubbing at regular intervals. I've surrendered to the blue....
I had an evening away from Picot to work up a little something in some Hebridean Wool that I bought locally. It's from Vicarage Farm (right at the bottom of the page) that produces organic meats and this is the first year that they've produced yarn from their sheep. The yarn is Aran-weight and only comes in three natural colours, a cream, a dark brown (the hebridean and the softest) and a camel-ish mix of the two. It was nice to work with and I got to use my new Addi circulars which was a treat. Aren't they amazingly light? I did a little hat for me, a kind of modified beret. It's soft and warm - lovely! I might consider a winter cardigan in this stuff.
I had a lovely surprise this week as well - this little Phildar carrier bag! It was a present from my Mum and Dad who have just come back from their French hols - what was inside??
Three balls of this!! At 100g a ball, I'm thinking of making a little tank for me or one of my girls with two of them. Has anyone any experience of using this yarn? If so, does that sound feasible? I haven't seen any actual patterns for it and was wondering if I could just substitute it for something like maybe Rowan Glace or 4-ply? I've googled but nothing useful came up....
Posted by Anita at July 12, 2004 06:11 PMcute hat and nice bag of yarn from france! way to go parents. unfortunately i haven't worked with this yarn to give you any direction in subtitution, but i'm sure you'll get lots. and i love the picot cast on. i haven't tried it on my knits, but i love the way it looks. i'll have to give it a go.
Posted by: froggy at July 12, 2004 08:42 PMHi there - great colour in the Onde! I'm using some Onde right now in a chickami (from chicknits, of course) and it's knitting up very well. I've got three balls of yarn (the pink that turns orange) and it looks like I'll use one ball for the front, one for the back, and about 6 inches of the the little orange ball right at the end. I'm knitting the chickami flat so that the colour varigation works out properly.
Onde is a gorgeous yarn. The tunic that I'm making for Brooke uses almost exactly 2 skeins, 1 each for the front and the back. There was a free pattern using Onde on the Phildar.fr site a while ago, not sure if it is still there. Bonne Marie from Chicknits has an Onde FAQ page which lists lots of pattern sources and other tips, you may find some useful information there..
Posted by: kerrie at July 13, 2004 09:32 AM