The MKGs stellar annual event, Yarnover, was set for the upcoming weekend, but was cancelled of course. I bought a summery linen shirt that I thought I would wear. When I got the shirt home, I did a stash dive, pulling out every color I could find that went with the shirt. I chose The Miller’s Daughter so I could combine colors in the garter sections and have solid colors in the lace sections…to mimic the woven fabric. The colors aren’t perfect, but I think they go. I know some of the yarns I used, but all were already wound without the labels so some are mystery yarns!
The colors are the closest here, but it’s so hard to capture color:
I did a picot bind off:
I used my No End Stripes techniques, so only one end to weave in: the tail after binding off! There is a picture of a written chart in the video that may be hard to see. Click here for a pdf copy: Minimizing Ends in Knitting.
It never hurts to repeat!
From Janet on the
quarantined East Coast
On Monday 4/20/2020
Marvelously tricky….thank you
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Comment by Janet Kovach — April 20, 2020 @ 4:21 pm
Wow that is so beautiful – I love the colour choices.
Comment by JUANITA — April 20, 2020 @ 7:00 pm
Thank you for the reminder and refresher!
Comment by Cheryl — April 21, 2020 @ 8:27 am
Interesting. The lady who owned our long-gone LYS store taught us to knit the working yarn with the CO tail for the first four stitches. I have never seen anyone else do that. What you do is kind of a variation on that, splicing the yarn and creating a tail-plus-working yarn that mimics the yarn alone – a little thicker, but twisted with the working yarn.
Comment by suzan stewart — April 21, 2020 @ 11:47 pm
Your colors harmonize beautifully.
Comment by Chloe — April 22, 2020 @ 5:07 am
It looks great. Wish I were about to see it in person.
Comment by Surly — April 23, 2020 @ 7:37 pm