It's all done and it's definitely a hit!
This may be the perfect little lacy shrug – – with minor variations and in different yarns I can imagine it filling a lot of different uses.
Tag: cashmere
The Amazing Knit Cat Lovey
I'm stretching the truth here — just a bit. This is actually not a knit cat lovey, although Squirt really wishes it was. Instead, it's my Mom's new shrug, finished just in time for graduation and knit from this pattern.
I joked about it being too big for her while I was knitting it, and it actually fits just a bit large on me, but I'm hopeful it will work out for her. It feels amazing, and is just the perfect touch of added warmth.
I promise better pictures tomorrow when the sun is up if Squirt will relinquish his apparent attempts at ownership. I may need to knit up the leftover yarn into a little lovey for him, if I'm to get the shrug back.
Just Enough Ruffles Scarf
I am going to knit this
Using this yarn, a soft, heavenly, robins egg blue worsted weight cashmere.
I am very happy about it. So are my kids.
Don't you just love a yarn everyone can get excited about?
Dreamy Knit Shrug
This is the Dream in Color Shrug I'm knitting for my Mom out of Jade Sapphire Cashmere, exactly halfway done.
I seem to spend a lot of time spreading it out and looking at it. I like the lacy pattern very much. I love how the Cashmere feels. Knitting this pattern in this yarn reinforces my belief that life is too short to knit with cheap yarn.
This is a surprisingly easy pattern — the repeats are short and quickly remembered. I've inserted markers to make it easy to keep up with where I am, so I can knit this in lectures or while talking with friends over coffee. It looks a bit long, or perhaps that's just wishful thinking on my part, as my Mom is smaller than I am, so if it's too large, well, um, we all know how that one goes.
Hermione Loves Ron
This might be the cleverest pattern ever for a knit hat. It's a simple ribbed watch cap, but the knit rows are cabled and the purl rows contain a simple lace pattern.
The pattern is available as a free download on Ravelry and its called Hermione loves Ron because it was inspired by the hat Hermione wore in the Half Blood Prince movie in the Harry Potter series.
The yarn I'm using is Classic Elite's Princess, a blend of 40% Wool, 28% Rayon, 15% Nylon, 10% Cashmere and 7% Angora. I was intrigued by that blend when I saw the yarn on sale at my LYS. It has been really nice to knit with, although it is not as soft as I would have expected with the Cashmere and Angora content. I'll be interested to see how it feels after it washes up.
I've completed three of the four and one-half repeats the pattern calls for before going to decreases. Although this is meant for my oldest child, it looks like he is going to have to fight off his younger sister to get it, and really, it is a bit more of a "girl pattern" than I anticipated when I began it. I'm starting to think about a more teenage boy friendly version that omits the lace pattern on the purl portion of the rib.