KNITTING: Next up in the Finish It in '26 project parade is my Piilo sweater. One sleeve done this past week, one underway. It's a very blocky fit and I think I'm going to love it. Especially that collar. Yarn is Kelbourne Scout and like all of their yarns it is pretty great. (Seriously have you tried Kelbourne Perennial?)
While looking for a flat box yesterdayI found this, which may just be next up. I'm trying to remember when I labeled it and put it on top of a cabinet in my office. 10+years ago? 15? (OMG I see it well underway on Ellen Bloom's blog while I was visiting LA...in 2010.) As promised it is done and just needs ends finishing...ETC. I wasn't sure at first what ETC meant... 
It's really lovely airy bouclé mohair from Be Sweet, a South African yarn company, now out of business. It was a kit for a diagonal shawl, I quickly got bored of the even wide stripes and improvised. When I took it out of the box I remembered several things about it...
• It is very large as in at least 9 feet , and it'll grow more when blocked. I'm likely to wear it as a big squished scarf-y piece so all good there.
• It is very sherbert colored, this I do recall as a problem! Back then I'd regretted the colorway choice. At first I thought that's how it ended up done but not finished. At the time my hair was dark and these weren't "my" colors. Now that my hair is silver, I like to wear these colors a lot more.
Holes! from dropped stitches! That was the ETC and the real reason I put this in a box and ignored it. It all came back to me. I'd dropped a few stitches in the curly boucleé in several places. You know what didn't come back to me? Yarn in all the colors. I just have these two! Any suggestions ? I am considering embroidering a daisy or asterisk wherever there's a hole.
READING :I am warming up to Katabasis. It has nothing to do with the peonies, I just wanted to show them off.
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13 comments:
That's an old WIP, almost as old as my kid!
I love that sweater!! Go you on tackling that lapful of knitting as the weather warms! But that shawl! YUM! It is delightful! And I think some embroidery to accent the holes would be brilliant! (Personally, I think the holes work in that airy scarf!) Thanks again for joining us this week! XO
YES to some sort of daisy-flourish around that hole. It will only add to the charm. I love how you're plowing through your WIPS, Gale. It's like history and knitting all at the same time! XO
I love knitting with Kelbourne's Scout. It's a great yarn. The sweater looks very comfortable. I would put some kind of visible mending on that hole. Do you know the Eyelet Embroidery Stitch? A flower or daisy would be great fun too.
Sew in a bead that closes each hole. Extra bling!
The Sweater is going to be great -- and yes to embellishing the dropped stitch holes.
i know!!!amazing how fast the time goes when you stick something up on a shelf!
I had the same thought but am afraid they are loses enough to grow and drop more adjacent stitches .
So true! As I was looking over this shawl I slowly remembered so many details about why I chose to knit it,who helped me
choose the yarn…I feel that way about a lot of my knits especially ones I made while traveling.
Thanks I will look that stitch up !
Wow that is a great suggestion!!! Thank you!
I love the idea of a bead to close up a hole... and maybe a few others randomly placed throughout. (I love me some BLING!)
yes! I love this suggestion and it’s making me more excited about finishing the scarf. A little bling will level it up!
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