“…with no mistakes in it yet.”
Another FO (that’s Finished Object to we cool knittists) for you!
I finished this scarf for my Mother’s birthday at the end of April and it’s all blocked and done and lovely. One mistake – well, two mistakes – and otherwise it’s perfect. Well, not perfect, but leave me alone you didn’t make my Mum a handmade scarf. And if you did, well, that’s pretty weird.
ANYWAY to match the scarf I commissioned my cousin to make a brooch:
This is the only picture I have of it as it came in the post all wrapped up and I don’t want to disturb it. Here it is wrapped up:
The scarf was fun to knit. It has a knit slipped edge which makes it dead straight along one side:
And then some easy lace detail on the other side as well as increases/decreases:
My track record with lace isn’t great, I frogged the last bit I tried, but this has gone well. I got a couple of nice messages from Stella Ackroyd, designer of the Border Ballad pattern (Ravelry link to the pattern found here) which was really encouraging. I love how nice the knitting community is! So supportive.
The wool feels lovely while knitting too. I used Sublime Extra Fine Merino DK (Colour Julep) which was lovely and soft. Very elastic though, which made it tricky to get a consistent tension… Hopefully Mum will like it. Hopefully she’ll wear it. Hopefully she won’t see too many of the mistakes…
The wool feels lovely while knitting too. I used Sublime Extra Fine Merino DK (Colour Julep) which was lovely and soft. Very elastic though, which made it tricky to get a consistent tension… Hopefully Mum will like it. Hopefully she’ll wear it. Hopefully she won’t see too many of the mistakes…
*quote from L. M. Montgomery
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