Thursday, October 25, 2012

Playing with new yarn


These days I’m knitting about 10 hours a day. Why? Because I’ve come up with a new idea, and then I just want to figure out how to make what I have in mind.

It started with this:

Beautiful Shetland Wool, fingering weight.  My favorite yarn shop has this yarn in an huge range of colours ( link ). And it is the first thing you see when you enter the shop: an enormous  closet, filled with all these colours. That’s why I usually take a note with me, about what I want, because otherwise I would leave the shop with a lot of yarn, except what I came for.

Anyway. This time I did actually buy a few of these  yarn-cakes, from deep dark red, softening in colour to orange, and an warm, natural one.

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Playing with these colours, I had quite quickly an idea, about what to make. The red yarns are knitted in stockinette stitch, the natural in reverse stockinette.

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The same idea, but now with yarn in totally different colours:

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As you can see is this one still on my needles. I hope I can show you both items finished somewhere next week.

As always, thank you for visiting and for leaving such lovely comments. I always enjoy very much reading them!


Groetjes, Dorien

6 comments:

  1. Dat ziet er heel speciaal uit. Ben benieuwd wat het gaat worden.

    Groetjes, Monique

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  2. Ben heel benieuwd, idd prachtig garen.

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  3. Wow! All those colours - how can you choose! I love your knitting, it's so beautiful! What is that Finlandia import?! That yarn is from Scotland or what. x Teje

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  4. Hi Dorien, I love it when you have a new burst of inspiration!

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  5. Deze post zegt overal! Simone. Wat kleur, patroon, alles betreft. Bedankt. Had ik wel nodig met dit sombere weer!

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  6. What ever it is you are 'not showing' looks gorgeous and the colours are wonderful, wonder what it is!?!

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