knitting with honey

25 May, 2009
knitting

le-honeybuns

the mohair kind that is

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it’s slowly turning into a lace edging - :: a Very Pretty Vandyke Border :: - to be precise.  From Cornelia Mee’s gorgeously titled book “Exercises in Knitting” via KnitWiki by way of Ravelry.  Ah, what a gold mine that is.  And thank you dear Amy for yesterday’s tip - that led to me being glued to the laptop well into the wee hours of the morning! All I now want to do is sit and knit.

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Oh yes, the lace edging - it’s for the dandelion/polar bear wrap.  For the long sides.  I think I’ll need twenty repeats for each side.

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It’s ever so cosy.

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With lovely texture - I’m quite smitten.

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as I am with this mohair honey.  Abigail wants a shrug in it.  I think I need a shawl in it.  And maybe Jocelyn White’s beautiful Leafy Vine Scarf.

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p.s. if you want to try novice lace knitting, whilst mohair may seem an odd choice, you’d be delighted to see how beautifully it hides mistakes :-)  And I’m using 7mm needles instead of the recommended 5.5 - not only makes it go faster, but looks suitably mooshy like the wrap.

p.p.s.  I bought the mohair for the wrap for only $1 per ball.  How thrilling is that!

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