Entrelacy Love
I seem to be developing a habit of jumping on bandwagons very late :)
My first clappy was only completed the other week, here she is all blocked and neat:
I've got my eye on a swallowtail shawl for some Malabrigo Lace that i just picked up - which was intended to become a shrug for the SIL wedding but i think is too fine.
And last week I cast on for an Entrelac scarf using the leftover pink & brown merino and a great tutorial by KnittyOtter
My first clappy was only completed the other week, here she is all blocked and neat:
I've got my eye on a swallowtail shawl for some Malabrigo Lace that i just picked up - which was intended to become a shrug for the SIL wedding but i think is too fine.
And last week I cast on for an Entrelac scarf using the leftover pink & brown merino and a great tutorial by KnittyOtter
It's so much easier than you'd think, it is taking a little longer to memorise the pattern than i would like... i keep attaching each square at both ends... when you're only supposed to attach it to one side and slip the stitches on the other side... oops. But its really easy to fix.
I think the pink and brown merino actually looks pretty good in this pattern, its making stripes which I could never get it to do with other patterns. I'd even consider getting some Noro just to do this again to see how each square takes up the colour.
hmmm let me see what else has been happening........ Oh I also cast on Something Red, which will actually be blue. This has been in my ravelry qeue for the longest so I thought I better do something about it. Trouble is its pretty boring, miles and miles of stockinette until you get to the ribbing towards the bottom... but even that will be pretty boring. Knowing my luck I'll finish it just before summer!
Back onto being a bridesmaid for my SIL I've just ordered some Silky merino in the Purple Mystery colourway for the shrug instead of the lace weight. The colour is perfect a nice deep purple. Which I discovered a couple of weekends ago is the actual colour of our dresses, deep purple. I don't know where I got the idea that they were purpley blue colour! So now i guess i have two skeins of Louet Gems for my stash - oh poor me! :D
The lace weight Malabrigo is gorgeous but so thin!! knitting anything with it is going to take ages! I now have either the Swallowtail Shawl (rav link) in mind for it (which seems a bit complicated!) or the Luscious Lace Scarf (rav link) which seems a bit easier.
