Author: Amy


Want List


I don’t really need any more yarn right now, not exactly, but I have a few I’m keeping an eye on for later.

 

Joy DK Yarn by Loops and Threads.  I went to a Michaels to look at this today, and I liked it. It’s a size 3 and similar to Caron Simply soft. Only 250 meters though.

 

Loops and Threads Payette yarn.  It was on clearance and appears to have that tinsel effect through it and sequins.  Like most things on Michaels it was not in the store and out of stock online.  I’d love to get some sequin yarn though.

Lion Brand Wrap Star.  I love ombre yarns that fad from a dark color to light, or vice versa, only once.

Sheepjes Whirl, definitely plan on trying this at some point.

 

Finished Landscapes


 

I finished the Caron Cotton Cakes Rose Whisper color off making a colorblock scarf, and then I tried making a solid broomstick lace scarf in the Lion Brand Landscapes.  Wow, seriously.  It’s just as pretty as the Red Heart Unforgettable, it’s fuzzy just like the Unforgettable, but it’s ACTUALLY A 4. The Red Heart often looked like a 4 but if you applied any tension at all to it, it thinned down to a laceweight (1) and didn’t hold a stitch very well.  By that I mean you’d do a double crochet, for example, and while you have tension on it, it’s fine.  But once you move to the next stitch it would ‘relax’ and loosen up.  I am pretty sure that is why my mom had a hole in her coat.  That or the yarn just pulled apart, because that happens too.

 

But so far, I am loving the Landscapes.  It is holding the broomstick lace pattern very nicely on top of all of that.

Broomstick Lace


My mom asked how much another broomstick lace scarf would cost, and I said 50.  She thought that was crazy high but yeah, it takes forever.  I made one around 10 feet for myself that I sold for 30 but I absolutely won’t be doing that again.  It takes hours and hours to make one at least 60 inches.

So, I like Cotton


I finished yet another poncho in the Caron Cotton Cakes and I must say I like this yarn.  I don’t want to  become a fiber snob or anything but I like working with stuff that doesn’t feel too delicate.

 

 

I am using the skein and a half left overs to start another broomstitch lace thing, even if the stitch is so damn tedious!

 

Mandala Vest Finished!


I enjoy this pattern a lot.  It called for a fingering yarn, and I went with a 3 instead, but it still came out well.  I think next time I will use an actual fingering yarn (a 1 or 2) and double check that the arm holes are smaller but otherwise this worked just fine.  I will definitely make this again.

Some other thoughts, I will likely still use a colorway yarn but probably make the border, either the final 8 DC border in a single color, or just do everything from the arm holes outwards the same color.  It took roughly 1500 yards of Lion Brand Mandala yarn in Spirit which is about 2.5 skeins.