Well, I want to show you what I’ve been working on so this post will be all about me. First, though, let me assure you that, in addition to the following, I’m also working hard on getting a class schedule together and practicing on the new website so that when we go live, we’ll also have a new schedule out. No classes are going to start before June, and I’m hoping that by mid-May, all will be set up and ready.
Anyhoo, at the shop I’m working on this simple cowl, in a combo of lace weight mohair and sport-weight wool on (I think) size 10’s.
It’s a fun stitch to do and produces a rick-rack effect. It will be a free pattern, suitable for any fluffy worsted or combination of lighter gauges, when I get it done and write it up.
I’ve also been indulging myself. I have had a hankering for a pink sweater for months, and I also liked this pullover from last year’s Knits:
so I’m combining the two, using a shell-pink Panda Silk that has always made my mouth water:
I’m done with the fun part, and now it’s just around and around and around and….well, you know. I modified the neckline, of course, so it won’t fall off my shoulders – come on, designers, most sweater knitters are not braless 19-year-olds!
So, since I’m at the long and boring part of this project, I decided to try something that I completely blame Donna for. A few months ago she gave me a heads-up on a cowl designed by Nancy Marchant, who is the queen of brioche stitch. Amazing-looking design.
A day or so later, Marchant posted the pattern for this fun scarf, called Carmine and Rocko after 2 Maine Coon cats of her acquaintance:
Well it took a while to clear my decks enough to try something so different, and the chart was amazingly busy and intimidating, like a language from outer space. But the effect of two-color brioche is unique and I had a little free space in my brain, so I decided to try the scarf (57 stitches as opposed to ??hundred for a cowl). So here is my attempt:
Light Side
The Dark Side – Come Over!
I must say that, despite several mistakes in the direction of decreases that I really should have looked up a few more times instead of guessing, I think it looks okay-ish, and I’m enjoying the challenge. At this moment in time. Which may not be true tomorrow. It may be ripped out and never mentioned again. Or it may be the culmination of a class series on brioche stitch. Don’t know!
