Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 24585 Location: mid-Wales
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 09 5:10 pm Post subject: I love my stash...
From part of my Royal Welsh winnings I bought myself a book: Knitted Lace of Estonia. It made me really want to knit myself a cobweb weight shawl, so I was going to spend the rest of said winnings on some yarn.
then I looked in my 'natural shades UK yarn' stash box: some lovely UK Alpaca cobweb wieght yarn! I've wound it off the skein and there's about 450m there: enough for at least a scarf!
Woohoo!
AnnaD
Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 2777 Location: Edinburgh
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 09 5:50 pm Post subject:
Excellent! Sounds like a lovely project to start on; you'll have to post pictures of the finished piece
i've been sorting through my stash box and found all the laceweight i got a couple of years ago. I'm working though a few patterns in victorian lace today.
I love it when that happens I found some tiny corn dollies I had forgotten about in the "general" bits stash which will be perfect for the snow geese to hold (more christmas bazaar stuff )
So tell us more about this scarf? I love cobweb but I can't do lace for toffee - I need something that *fights* back
mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 24585 Location: mid-Wales
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 09 7:46 am Post subject:
There's a group of stitches in Estonian lace called the maikellukese patterns: lily of the valley to you and me. I'll be designing a scarf with one of those as the body with a pointed edging and a border of some kind. The yarn is a faintly pinkish fawn, very pale...
I've got a snood to finish first though: It's got a very light lacey body with a reversible cable border, in a random dyed aqua-green silk yarn which a friend gave me for a challenge.
mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 24585 Location: mid-Wales
I found some tiny corn dollies I had forgotten about in the "general" bits stash which will be perfect for the snow geese to hold (more christmas bazaar stuff 
)
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