Sunday, 16 August 2009

Angora + Lace = Pretty

Just a little update to share my latest FO... a lighter than air lace 'scarflette' made from a divinely soft angora/merino blend.

This is a planned christmas present and a fun knit using a pattern from 'Little Luxury Knits' by Louisa Harding. (The pattern is also available for free on Ravelry via the link below.)



The scarflette only uses one skein of DK yarn, including the flower and takes a fairly vigorous blocking to get the length required and to open up the lace. If you wanted a full length scarf, you could easily do it with two skeins. I amended the flower pattern slightly as I wanted more petals (and also crocheted round the edges with kidsilk haze).

For interest, here are my 'before and after' blocking pics...



More details and a link to the free pattern can be found on Ravelry here:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/flockhartsl/juliet-scarf

7 comments:

  1. Wow, that looks amazing!! So soft and cuddly, I'm sure anyone would be excited to get that as a gift!

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  2. Its so lovely - the lace really shows off that yarn.

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  3. Thank you - I hope so... (it's always a risk giving knitted gifts, isn't it... in case you have completely misjudged someone's taste. Fingers crossed!)

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  4. Thanks Alice. It did need some vigorous blocking and I was afraid I might damage the yarn, but it survived. Now I need to stop feeling it relentlessly... otherwise it won't be fit for gift giving!

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  5. sppp beutiful it was.....have a nice weekend

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  6. This is so beautiful, and I've been admiring it for a while. I'm going to attempt it over the Christmas holidays :)

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  7. Thanks Gylfinir... I will look forward to seeing yours! It's actually a nice quick knit.

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