This weekend I’ve mainly been stitching my embroidery coursework, but in the evenings and when my neck gets sore (I have terrible stitching posture) I’ve been working on this happy sparkly scarf.
I cast this on just to try herringbone stitch originally, I love the woven look it makes (in also in love with linen stitch) and I’ve wanted to try it for ages but I’m usually up to my eyeballs in snoods so it’s hard to find time to make anything for me.
In fact, this yarn has been in my Etsy shop as a snoods and I’ve sold a few of them but it’s a bit thicker than my usual yarn and it’s quite hard on the hands to get a tension in happy with. I’ve made a few for individual customers but I’ve also made 4 for the National Theatre’s breathtaking production of Follies which was a huge delight for me. But unless the wardrobe artists for Follies get in touch I’m not planning on making any more snoods out of this yarn.
I have a lot of it though. Herringbone days a lot of yarn though so that’s good and it’s a totally different experience knitting with it on 6mm needles to crocheting to a fairly firm guage. It’s coming out as a fluid but not floppy fabric which is good news.
I’ve put quite a few inches on this knitting while watching Eurovision, the red marker is where I picked it up this weekend.
I’m still a bit gutted Australia didn’t win. I’m a bit in love with that staging.
My camera hasn’t picked up the sparkle at all well, this yarn is about 30% metallic gold. It’s lovely in real life.
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