Afghan, linen stitch or woven stitch, mixed fibers: cotton, linen, mohair, silk, wool, lurex, alpaca, acrylic, polyamide; size 9 cable needle, 60 in.
I started another afghan because I have all these whites - fat ones, skinny ones, fluffy ones, shiny ones... and so now I have this quite lovely binkie in progress. About every third row I am using an alpaca boucle, and the texture is all brought together by its softness and drape.
I haven't measured it yet with the tape measure but it's about 65 inches wide. It has both gold and silver metallic highlights among the yarns, so it has a very elegant look rather than the more bohemian effect that mixing a couple dozen yarns has. I'm working with a bin of the yarns at the ready. I seem to able to keep at it for about a week at a time and then I have to put it aside and do something else.
I haven't bothered really to talk about this in the past, however there are very few things I produce by following someone else's pattern. I don't think about it much. I design textiles, so the shape happens as a secondary consideration and I'm not interested in complex garment construction. I'm not going to go back and edit all the entries for which this applies. So from now on I have decided to indicate that each piece is of my design with the term:
Original design
