Ruthless Knitting Archive

This is my test post. Soon, I will write my first post about the Andes yarn sweater. That day has not yet come, since I’m not quite done with the sweater yet. Meanwhile, I’ll be working out the kinks around here to get ready to launch.

Here is a picture, just for kicks. This is a cashmere scarf I made for a friend using one skein of Artyarns Cashmere 5. I used the Turkish Stitch from Barbara Walker’s first stitch dictionary (p. 185) over 26 stitches. This yarn is divinely soft but unusual, in that it appears in the skein to be laceweight cashmere but is in fact five strands of laceweight cashmere held together (not spun together, just side by side), so that it knits up on larger needles. I used a US9 for this scarf, I think, but would have used a 10.5 if I had one handy. This was my first foray into “faggoting,” which Walker calls “lace reduced to its two bare essentials: (1) a yarn-over stitch and (2) a decrease.” Though I think it needs a new name, I love the result. The end product has a wonderful depth and squishiness, as if it were double knitting. Also, in a strange but pleasing twist of fate, the pink blobs randomly distributed in the skein formed a shadowy diamond pattern over the whole scarf. I have another skein of this magic yarn in a different color and am still trying to decide if I’ll make myself one of these little scarves or perhaps a hat.

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