October 21, 2012

Play

Play

Play

I bought the Play kit from The Uncommon Thread, but ended up switching one of the two yarns to Cephalopod Skinny Bugga!. Not that I didn't like the original kit yarn combination, but I decided I wanted a shawl that wasn't identical to tens of shawls. I noticed that The Uncommon Thread Lush Twist and Cephalopod Yarns Skinny Bugga! have an identical fiber composition, a very similar plying, and they are very close in weight, so I chose to combine the two. The orange color is Skinny Bugga! in Bronze Moth, and the grey is Lush Twist in Plata. I quite like the combination.

The pattern itself is a pretty mindless knit, perfectly relaxing. I might end up knitting another one, because I would like to try out different color combinations.

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October 14, 2012

Cria #2

Cria #2

Cria #2

There has been some knitting going on, even though the updates have been sparse lately. This, however, is the first finished item in about two months. I liked the fit of my first Cria so much I decided a while ago I would knit a second one. However, enough time had passed that previous experience was of no help getting through the tricky beginning, since I'd forgotten pretty much everything about the last time (and the little I did remember was incorrect). So, the difficulty level was the same as the first time around, but I'm also equally happy with the results. Madelinetosh pashmina has a lovely sheen and drape, and I don't think this will be my only time using this yarn. And Ysolda's Cria pattern still holds its place as the best-fitting sweater pattern I've knit so far.

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