New Free Pattern: Sweet Nothing.

Sweet Nothing is an airy scarf/wrap with beautiful beaded picot bind off. This design takes advantage of the subtle difference in color and texture created by consecutively knitting with light kidsilk yarn and more darker alpaca. Alpaca stripe is knitted in st. st. and kidsilk stripe is knitted with dropped Yos to make it wider then alpaca stripe. “Sweet Nothing” can be easily worn for an evening out or for a casual occasion paired with an everyday outfit.

I have started this scarf as a travel project and then put it aside and finished it during the December holidays. Perfect little something to keep your hands busy when there is not enough time for more involved and complicated projects. Also, perfect project for watching Elementary ;-))
I wanted to use Miyuki beads for BO, but my favorite Bead shop near my house closed ;-((((( I could only find the Czech glass beads at Jo-Ann’s in the color I needed. Worked out well in the end.
6/0 Czech glass e-beads in colorway Crystal/Gold, about 74
A free pattern for this simple design is now available on Ravelry and my blog.
My project on Ravelry is here.

Happy knitting,

Diana

Free Pattern: Morning Dew, a seamless topdown top

Free pattern for Morning Dew top is now available to download on Ravelry or from my blog if you not registered with Raverly site. Please refer to the previous post for more pictures and information on this project. I would love to see this top knitted by others :-))) Please drop me a line if you decide to knit one :-))

Happy Holidays everyone. May coming year bring only happiness and joy to all of you. :-))))

Morning Dew: Kidsilk Seamless Top

When the dew is on the grass,
rain will never come to pass;
When grass is dry at morning light,
look for rain before the night.

weather folklore

The top is seamless and knitted from the top, my favorite method to knit lately  ;-)) This time I tried raglan sleeves and I love how they fit. The top has a wide lace trim on the sleeves and the body. The lace pattern is an Estonian lace pattern called "wallpaper". I have used about 674.8 yards (617.0m) of BBB Filati Soft Dream and  US 4 - 3.5 mm in colorway 027. More pictures and information on Ravelry.

I am going to write the pattern in the coming days. This was an easy and fast knit :-)) I love seamless construction for kidsilk. In my opinion seams are not a good choice for kidsilk yarn. What do you think? :-))

Топ свяазан без швов сверху вниз с рукавом реглан. Кайма по телу и рукавах связанна узором "обои" популярным в вязании Естонких шалей. Информацию о пряже и фотографии процесса можно посмотреть на Ravelry.В ближайшие дни постараюсь написать инструкции. Топом довольна. На мой взгляд безшовная конструкция идеальна для вязния из деликатного кидсилка. А что вы думаете? ;-)))