Showing posts with label turkish yarn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label turkish yarn. Show all posts

Monday, February 11, 2008

Another FO: Norah Gaughan's Capecho

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It took more than one month to finish this project. I used Alize Cashmira 100% wool for this capecho, my gauge/tension was 20 sts per 4" (10 cm) and I used 4 mm INOX circular needles. I cast on for M size to compensate the gauge (18 sts/4 "). It is still not well fitted but if I would knit this again with the same yarn, I would cast on for S size and decrease the cables to 6 sts. Or, another way is to decrease the numbers of pentagons in the first row with one pentagon i.e. 6 pentagons instead of 7.
norah gaughan, capecho, vogue knitting magazine winter issue, knitting nature, knitting project, cropped cardigan, pentagon

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Cleaves by Katherine Summer O'Neal

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Ta-daaa! Another FO (finished object). I just love it. It is indeed different and it happened that a lady in a shop even wanted to touch it to understand how it is constructed...

I am very pleased how it turned out. I used only 2 skeins of Feza Jasmine, a very soft yarn which gave to this project the drape I wanted it. I used double pointed needle for the very first time in and I had hated it so much... But, I guess it was worth it, "no pain, no gain"...

Friday, November 16, 2007

busy days on ravelry online community

I am lucky to be a ravelry member. Ravelry is a huge online knitting and crochet community. My username on ravelry is craftylady. I've already started a group Knitting Turkey. It is a place for knitters who live, lived, will live in Turkey or are somehow connected to Turkey. This group is for anybody interested in traditional Turkish stitches and patterns, Anatolian fair-isle, fabulous Turkish yarn, a guide to buying yarns in Turkey, etc.

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