I’m about to start another Stephen West shawl, with yarn I bought at Stephen & Penelope last year. Just can’t decide on the color order.
Can’t decide between Cream/Wine with Rust accents, or Cream/Rust with Wine.
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Thank you. It was the most challenging project I have done and I was very happy how it turned out.
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Thank you. It is has taken a very long time to finish but I am really pleased with it.
And I made an 1898 Hat and headband for my recent trip to Iceland and Greenland. Finished the alpaca-lined headband before we left, then did the hat on the ship during the science presentations and evening recaps.
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I love that pattern ColoCro made few hats myself. Like ur idea of design.
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Wow @DeborahB you’ve made this cardigan perfectly. Stunning cables!
I vote cream/wine with rust. Not that it’s open to vote but i will anyway.
It’s a great design.
Great hat too. Trip to Iceleand sounds amazing!
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Thank you. I learned a few new techniques too - seaming reverse stockinette, picking up button bands and one row button holes. Lots of help from the kind posters on this site helped.
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And learned them superbly, looks like professional standard to me.
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I think this will be my next project.
I have a big ball of cotton yarn in a nice off-white color.
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Cute!
That’s an interesting looking pattern!
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I just frogged it.
Don’t know what happened to my gauge, my swatch was pretty big (17 cm by 35 cm) so you’d think my gauge would be easy to calclulate from that, did lots of maths to check which size to follow, worked 13 rows of pattern and it was yuck. Sloppy stitches, it was as though I’d changed needle size. Then realised over a wide spread of stitches it was stretching out, and would do so even more with the weight of a full sweater hanging side ways.
Anyway, frogged, that took a while, 6 balls of yarn in intarsia. I almost gave up on it but I love the yarn so I’m having another shot. Smaller needles, gauge way off, will try the XL pattern to aim for M outcome. I did do the maths but knitting insists on being stretchy, flexible, and squooshy. I’m better at measuring metal, it stays still.
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What’s the yarn? Is it an especially stretchy one?
It’s Jubliee Yarn baby soft bamboo cotton size 1, super fine.
I don’t think it’s stretchy, (?) I think it’s just due to working on a larger needle so the fabric is opening up. I held 2 strands together on 4.5 mm needle and inititally got 21 sts per 19 cm, then when i measured again it was 23… then when i started working the pattern it just opened so much, didn’t look like my swatch at all.
I’ve reswatched on 4mm for more stability in the fabric. Swatch seems ok.
It comes in different weights, seems not to be labled with weight on raverly.
https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/jubilee-yarn-baby-soft-bamboo-cotton
Did you try blocking? I find that cotton always changes gauge after a soak! My favourite yarns are non super wash wool as they tend to be the most stable but they can be costly and don’t suit gentle skins!
No, i didnt block these swatches as I’ve used this yarn before and not much happens when washed and dried flat. A lot happenes when it has weight on it, the weight of the fabric pulling down stretches the stitches, esp with the open/airy fabric.
My swatch can stretch from 15 cm flat to 28 cm pulled… so my gauge is some random guess work here, especially with the side ways knit which seems even stretchier than a bottom up knit.
I’ve made little Mister a couple of sweaters in 100% cotton and the size is really stable, they get thrown in the washer and randomly hung on the line to dry and they’re fine.
This bamboo cotton, i did go excessively long on the first sweater i made with it, i was measuring it flat, big mistake, it ended up waaaay too long and i chopped a huge section off the bottom. Since then though it’s been really stable in size, I wear it a lot and it’s man-handled through the laundry and still looks pretty good.
That’s good. My gauge swatches often lie !!
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I love Bergére de France designs. This looks like a big winner to me.
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