New Yarn for the New Year
Two new handspun skeins that I laid out to dry just before new years.
“Ponycorns”
Fiber Used: Bugga!Fiber, 4oz, 70% superwash merino, 20% cashmere, 10% nylon, colorway: ponycorns
Fiber Source: The Sanguine Gryphon
Yardage: 560 yards of a heavy lace weight
Fiber Used: 100% superwash merino, 4oz
Fiber Source: Biltmore Wool Barn
Yardage: 260 yards of a thick and thin mostly fingering weight
What to blog when you have no words
Since my ability to string ideas into anything more than gibberish seems to have disappeared, how about a handful of pictures instead.
3 rows and a bind off to go.
Mittens still missing some fingers and thumbs.
Pretty yarn all in a row. (The Sanguine Gryphon Mithril left to right: Zodiac, Woods and Undergrowth, Citizen Kane, and an Experimental Love Child.)
Something for the wheel. (Sanguine Gryphon bugga! fiber in Ponycorns)
And an Idea brewing.
Gene Tierney, the Divine
July 12, 2012 update: “Gene Tierney, the Divine” was originally part of The Sanguine Gryphon’s Fall 2011 “Film Noir” pattern collection, and is now available directly from the designer (me!).
The pattern is now available for purchase as a download for $8.00, either on Ravelry, or directly through the blog … buy now
Whether in night dress or an evening gown, every woman needs diamonds to distract from her scheming. Well, this shawl has diamonds aplenty. Enough, I would reckon, to conceal the conspiracies of one plot, or maybe twenty. Then perhaps, just perhaps, an X will mark the spot where the murderous heart skips a beat.
Knit in two halves then grafted together in the middle, this shawl easily flows across and off the shoulders. A wide garter stitch border surrounds the stockinette central motifs, providing an elegant and effortless frame for an elegant and effortless piece.
Yarn: The Sanguine Gryphon ‘Mithril’, 4oz/750 yds, 100% merino wool, 2 skeins, shown in Der Blaue Engel (Fall/Winter 2011 colourway)
Needles: US 2/3.00mm circular, or size needed to obtain gauge
Gauge: 28 sts and 38 rows = 4”/10 cm in St st, washed and blocked
Notions: tapestry needle, waste yarn, US 3/3.25 mm or 4/3.5 mm needle for cast on edges (optional)
Finished Measurements: 22” (56 cm) x 78” (198 cm)
Skills Used: cable cast on, knitting and purling, k2tog, k3tog, k3togtbl, sk2p, ssk, yo, kitchener stitch/grafting, weaving in ends, and blocking lace
Both charts and written stitch directions are included.
