Happy Easter

Here are all my little fluffy friends. Suri Merino, Brushed Alpaca. Thanks to resurrection fern for the tutorial and inspiration. So cute, so fun…

Wish I could learn to blog backwards? Last but not least.

Ahhh… the cowl I did keep. It's Malabrigo worsted, Continental Blue—super soft. Another Ravelry free download. The Crofter’s Cowl, Designed by Gudrun Johnston, Shetlandtrader. I love it, super soft, great color. A fast knit, the grafting of 80 stitches was a little tedious for me and you can see my grafting, it's far from perfect. More than likely I will make this again and again. It can be completed in an afternoon, making it a good gift. The Malabrigo lends itself nicely to the design, its thick to thin transitions and slight color variation help to hide the grafting and it's so soft you just fall in love the minute you put it on. That's it for today. My last cowl for March. I have two patterns on my studio desk and of course if my friend Rebekkah from Bowerbird Knits writes her pattern I'll be casting on immediately!

cowls, cowls, caplet, cont…

cowls, cowls, caplet, cont…

Then I made Burnished Leaves Cowl. Designed by Chrissy Prange, a free Ravelry download…thanks Chrissy. A fun, quick and beautiful knit. I was thinking of keeping this one, but in the end it was gifted.
It's knitted with a Cascade 2020 Heathers, blue green, very pretty. Cascade always knits up nice, it's pretty soft, washes well, and holds its shape. I didn't even block it, it just washed and dried so nicely that I didn't have to.

cowls, cowls, caplet

The next thing I know I'm making a cowl for my mother-in-law for her Name's Day (a Latvian tradition). I chose some beautiful light aqua blue Frog Tree (from my stash) and a light lacy pattern. A free pattern from Lion Brand website titled Lacy Luxe Cowl. In the end I sent two of the cowls I made to her. I told her to choose the one she liked best, and give the other to either my niece or sister in law as an early Easter gift. Well she chose the one a made with her in mind…it was a success!

cowls, cowls, caplet

This all started with a Caplet for my niece Sondra. Then I got carried away. I thought it would be wonderful to own a cowl. Since, I have knitted three different designs from the Ravelry site. I have two more ready to go. I must finish my sweater sleeves first. Perhaps it will too warm by then they'll get put on the back burner. Sondra’s Aspen Caplet came out nice. The color is quite pretty, the yarn is Lopi, I doubled it because she loves purples and my LYS didn't have that color in the super bulky weight. It's a little scratchy and it was a little rough on the hands knitting doubled. I rinsed it in Eucalan…seems to have soften it a bit.

HAPPY SPRING…

Catching up with all my favorite knitting blogs all day. What better way to procrastinate. I have a large design job that needs to get going and I just don't feel like it. Instead I went outside with my camera (notice the new header), took some emerging crocus shots and then attempted to take pictures of my Malabrigo sweater. I'm working on the second sleeve (finally) and thought it was a nice bright day to take pictures.
Well, too bright, they came out awful. I'll have to get back to you on that. Here's a nice picture of Josie enjoying a beautiful spring morning.