Aqua Silk

Capelet, silk, rib stitch, size 11 cable needle [24 and 47 lengths]

photo play with the materials - these photos are from August 2022

 

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

It's Pink!

This extra-fun capelet was knitting on a 10.75 cable needle 37 inches long.  It is all rib stitch.

It is composed of eight yarns in a variety of pink, and light purple colors with a little orange mixed in for good measure.

It includes silk, wool, linen, nylon, rayon and mohair.

I knitted it over a period of about four weeks this summer.

 

Ribbed fine tweed

Wool tweed scarf; worked in rib stitch and random striping in about 10 colors; size 5 cable needle

2020

I have tried to make each of the stripes a different width so that the colors don't set into an even rhythm.

Mohair scarf of black and multi color stripes

Scarf, stockinette stitch and rib stitch, mohair,  size 8 cable needle, 24 in.; about 15 in wide and 72 in long.

Started during a month-long working guest stint at a meditation retreat center, I began the big scarf with the black worked in stockinette stitch and the bright multicolor stripes worked in rib stitch to make the texture more interesting than straight stockinette and less curled up than straight rib stitch.

I enjoy working with bright multi-color yarns, but I think they look even more striking when alternated with black.

This design has stripes of uneven width to give the fabric a dynamic feel rather than ordinary regular stripes.

After working until the shawl was a few feet long I knew I was going to run out of the multi yarn and had to search for quite a while through bins and bins before finding the second ball. At times I doubted that I still had the second ball or if I ever had a second ball, but at last it appeared. I have become a bit better at keeping all the yarns for a project together in a project bag.

It was selected as a Christmas gift from among several scarves by a dear friend.

Green cotton tabard

Tabard, cotton, rib stitch border, stockinette body, size 7 cable needle, 24 in

 

I joined a knitting group in 2018 and chose this project for my "social knitting". I often get very involved in the conversations of a knitting group and my knitting suffers unless I choose something very simple.  I wanted to get back to a nice smooth sockinette stitch for this tabard.

I didn't need a pattern because this is a rectangle with a hole in the middle.  Tabards do not have side seams or sleeves.  Usually they extend to the shoulder or a little beyond.  The sides can be buttoned or held together by any number of fasteners.  Often tabard style aprons are tied at the sides

The casting off and rebinding in the middle leaves a neck hole.  By picking up the neck hole stitches and knitting a ribbed edging a nice finish is given to the neck.

 

I knitted the rib stitch edging into the fabric at the bottom of the front and back by changing the stitch pattern, then I picked up stitches along the sides and knitted the 3 inch edge in rib stitch.

  This the the finished tabard.

Lots of alpaca and silk

A bit on the bulky side, this ribbed scarf will be very warm and soft. I've used two yarns switching each two rows. I'm using an old pair of plastic needles that were my mother's.

Whites in long rows

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

Black and gray rib stripes

To rows of each yarn, then switch.

Size 4 needles
Cotton, acrylic, polyamide

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.

Organic gray wool

Scarf, organic wool, rib stitch variation, size 8 plastic needles, 7 in.

This is a thick and thin wool yarn, so the texture of the finished fabric is pleasantly uneven and has a  rustic attitude. It feels great going through my hands. Since it is knit with one yarn I have taken it every where with me in a bag and pulled it out for working when I have a few minutes to wait, or on a long car or bus ride.

The stitch is a variation of a k2 p2 ribt stitch.  I begin with k2 p2 for 8 rows, then switch to p2 kn2 for 8 rows and repeat for the length of the scarf.  I like the play of the light across the surface and the way it makes the scarf bulky. This stitch pattern is also similar to a basketweave pattern.

The wool is from Sweden and is quite soft and comfortable. The bulky weight will make it quite warm, and it is long enough to be wrapped around the neck twice for extra warmth on really cold days.

Scarf dimensions are 7 inches wide by 72 inches long.

For sale on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/littlehandsstudio

Aqua Cotton Capelet

Capelet, cotton chained tape, wide rib stitch, size 10.5 cable needle, nickel, 24 in.

I found this chained cotton tape on sale at The Yarn Company in New York City this summer and began a project with it immediately.  I enjoy this yarn a great deal because of it's springy-ness, even though it is cotton, which is often the texture of  kite string. I've worked with it in five colors now.

After a good start I created the notes page - each project gets a page to keep track of when it was started, notes about the design and techniques, where photographs are located, when it is completed and other useful notes.

This is the last row before binding off the stitches. The weight is a little on the bulky side, which I find very interesting. It still has all the properties of a good cotton. I began at the bottom and knit upwards to the neck edge, decreasing the width of the rib on the way up.

It is a thing!

The pale aqua looks a little different in different kinds of light.

I steamed and blocked it to relax the texture and I really love the way it looks and feels - it has a beautiful drape, which is I why I love working with this cotton.  It's about 55 inches around at the bottom and about 24 inches at the neck, and is about 15 inches long - it stops at around the elbows.

This gives the best sense of the color.

This scarf will be for sale along with  others in my etsy shop, Little Hands Studio: 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/littlehandsstudio