Embroidered pouch

Linen burlap pouch with silk lining and perle cotton embroidery, all hand stitched.

Pin and stitch basting

It will have a button closure with a braided cord.

Anchoring the upper flap lining with stitching

The button goes on the right

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Another Capelet

Capelet

Worked in stockinette stitch with mixed fibers, 15 inches long, size 9 cable needle.

It's formula knitting: cast on and knit 7 inches, decrease and knit 4 inches, decrease again and knit 4 inches then bind off.  Once you get the formula you can use any gauge. 

I really enjoy this simple shape for creating individual textiles.

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Red capelet in linen silk and mohair

Capelet, size US 3 cable needle - 24 in., linen, mohair and silk cast on 310 stitches

The linen is a rather stiff yarn so it does interesting things to the silk and mohair, which is rather soft and fluffy.  I alternated rows with each yarn knitted for one row.

Weeks later... the fine gauge makes for slow going.

Months later...

Off the needles and ready for finishing!

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Quilting with linen and silk thread

This is the first in a set of experimental placemats. I'm using linen remnants and figuring out all the technical aspects as I go along, using traditional hand stitching for the seams and for the quilting.

I am using a 3.5 x 3.5 in template to cut the base squares, then making 1/4 in seam allowances. I'm planning on doing 4 x 5 squares to get a nice placemat size.

Each block is lined with a very light cotton batting.

The blocks are sewn together with a tight whip stitch. Each block has a line of quilting  that goes around the block 1/4 in from the edge.

The edging is a bias strip. The medium weight linen and batting make a nice heavy mat.

 

Old Prism bubble: completion at last!

Triangle Shawl, size 6 cable needle, 32 in. mixed fibers, rib stitch.

This is how it developed over the final days:

And done!  It is about 75 in across the top and about 24 in at the longest point.

I had to sqeeze it  together to fit it on the table so I decided to stretch it out to its full glory  for display on the triangle loom.

 

Previous posts about this shawl:

 https://thatknittingblog.blogspot.com/2017/05/old-prism-bubble-encore.html

https://thatknittingblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/old-prism-bubble.html

Old Prism bubble: encore

Triangle Shawl, size 6 cable needle, 32 in. mixed fibers, rib stitch.

There's a long list of lovely yarns in this work.  I indicate each yarn with a letter.  I change yarns each row. Then I list out the pattern of rows.  So with colors A B C D E F G the pattern row order might go something like:

A

B

C

A

F

A

D

I'm putting the "bubble" yarn about every ten rows.

Cray cray but nice.

I'm taking it up again after a year or so in the work in progress bin. For the previous post about this shawl see https://thatknittingblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/old-prism-bubble.html

Fabric necklace - linen and velvet

18 in.; necklace, linen pendant with velvet ropes and button closure.  Glass beads on the pendant and a glass pendant at the bottom.

A sketch really helped in planning this one.

The glass pendant helps create some movement - the necklace would be rather stiff otherwise.

Almost complete!

 

Linen Apron "ocean blue"

Cross-back Japanese style working apron, linen, hand stitched, about 50 in x 36in

2018

Using remnants, assembling three strips 50in x 13in to form the basic rectangle.

All stitching is running stitch.  The seams to piece together the stips are flat-felled so that it is neat on the back side.

Yellow Linen Cloth in Garter Stitch

Wash cloth, linen, garter stitch, size 1 aluminum needles, 14 in.

The finished cloth is 11 in x 11 in and the fine gauge made with sport weight yarn produces a fairly sturdy and heavy cloth.  It's made to stand up to a lot of wear and to be machine washable and dryable.  This is a work horse cloth.
 

Sunny Yellow Linen - in progress

Wash cloth; Sport weight linen; garter stitch;  size 1 aluminum needle

I have really enjoyed this basic cloth, which is a gift for a departing work colleague. The very fine needle makes the cloth nicely tight-knit and it will machine wash and dry very well. It's LOTS of knitting for a piece that will probably be 11 x 11 inches.

 

Knitted masterwork: the amazing technicolor dream shawl.

 The amazing technicolor dream shawl is complete!!!!  I began this huge shawl in 2008 and stuck with it through thick and thin. I consider it my first knitted masterwork.

Shawl, mixed fibers - wool, mohair, nylon, silk; woven stitch, size 4 wood cable needle, 24 inches.

 

12 years! The challenge, beyond persistence, has been to keep the characteristics of the fabric the same over all those years.  With the basic formula of color sequence being to use a black yarn every third or fourth row, the challenge was to keep the color sequences as random as possible and to keep from beginning to favor warm or cool colors. The process had to involve looking back at the fabric each time I began kntting in  order to check the colors and keep them at a sufficient level of consistency so that the fabric stayed the same and didn't change into something else.  I loved the whole thing!

All told, it has dozens of yarns, beads and sequins. I also had to be vigilant regarding the beads and sequins. I watched carefully as I used the beaded and sequined yarn to make sure that they were distributed evenly through the fabric and not clustered.

Previous entries:

Included in summary entry for 2012

http://thatknittingblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/catching-up-fall-of-knitting.html

December 2011

http://thatknittingblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/shawl-mixed-fibers-wool-mohair-nylon.html

March 2009

http://thatknittingblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/in-studio-lightweight-linen-stitch.html

September 2008

http://thatknittingblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/in-studio-woven.html

 

Filet Crochet scarf

Filet crochet scarf

Filet crochet scarf with a double crochet border; one circle embellishment,;72 in long x 8 in wide; size 2mm hook; the yarn is one strand/ply of linen with one strand/ply of kid mohair.

The crochet involed here forms a grid by spacing double crochet stictches along the row and in each row stictch the double crochet only into the double crochet from the previous row.  It builds a very open lacy fabic quickly. The linen in this fabric gives it body and weight.

Whites in long rows

This is a variety of fuzzy and silky yarns, mostly light weight yarns, worked on a size 10 cable  needle.

Old Prism Bubble

Triangle Shawl, mixed fibers: wool lurex linen silk nylon, wide rib stitch pattern, size 5 wood cable needle, 32 in

The novelty yarn Bubbles by Prism really makes this fabric.  Bubbles is hardly available any longer because it was produced quite awhile ago, but I got a skein at a local shop that had been stored for a few years and was on the discount shelf. All other yarns perform supporting roles, however they are lovely in themselves.

When I got the Bubbles I knew I wanted to use it with other very subtle colors but I didn't know quite what.  Then I came upon a work in progress that I wasn't liking very much and it happened to involve a lovely lilac linen and a light tweedy gray silk. A fine gauge needle was in orde because of the lace weights in the majority of the yarns. I wanted a more firm fabric than an open lacy one. I developed a color sequence which will have the Bubbles ocurring in a row about every three inches.

The wide rib pattern allows the Bubbles to show on both sides of the fabric.

Japanese silk and linen

Shawl, silk and linen, garter stitch, size 5 cherry wood cable needle, 32 in.

This fine gauge silk and linen has a soft texture and a crispy texture.  The linen paper yarn has little flags - they are tiny and just large enough to make a little sound as the fabric moves.  They aren't big enough to be scratchy, and they soften with wear. I enjoy its light weight. 

This is the second shawl using these same yarns together and I'm liking them all over again.