Spring Fever and Snow Crocus

Crystalline – waiting for the last few inches of edging.

I have Spring Fever.  A full-blown case of Startitus and it could mean more starts are in the near future.

Remember Crystalline – it is almost done – but it is languishing – waiting for this case of startitus to run its course.

Patina stalled!

Patina is in the same state.

First up – A new Silk Garden Sock colour had just arrived - it was stunning – not my usual colours – but gloves; No; a pair of gauntlet gloves – would be perfect!  Let’s try out a new cast-on – something ethnic – with texture -LOOPS!!

Entrelac gauntlet with loops!

Let’s go all out – two-colour loops!  Followed by a shaped Entrelac gauntlet – long – and then a tweed hand.  Perfection – except that the purple tweed that I wanted just wouldn’t work!  I have to rip the hand back and replace with black tweed.  They are now languishing.

Pooling requires a hand-dyed or variegated yarn that will stack on itself to form stripes in the fabric when knit with a certain amount of stitches. Pooling before the yarn is wound and then during the knit.

Second up – I was “helping” Fiona admire a lovely hank of Handmaiden Lino at the store.  The colourway is a Fleece Artist colourway called Snow Crocus and I had admired it several times myself recently.  This time the admiration spilled over into “must have”.  It was perfect for “pooling“!  Why had I never noticed this before!

The Snow Crocus Lino came home that evening and was wound in no time.  The cast-on and stitch auditions took a few hours longer, but it is perfection now!

What’s next?  Well; this new yarn just arrived yesterday…….

Happy Knitting

Lynette

Snow Crocus and Spring Fever