Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Branching Out

Branching Out was nicely blocked when I got home tonight (please excuse the hastily-contrived "pale background"!):



Pattern: Branching Out from Knitty by Susan Pierce Lawrence
Yarn: Stylecraft 100% wool DK in shade Ocean
Needles: 5mm straights (bamboo)
Yardage: Approx. three quarters of one 100g ball (240m / 260 yards per ball)
Pattern repeats: 39, I think!

This is a gift for a friend, I now need to finish off the bag in the same yarn :-) I'm definitely pleased with the end result on this scarf, it's amazing that you can turn a wibbly wobbly scrunchy piece of knitting into lovely lace with damp blocking.

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10 Comments:

At 6:28 pm, April 25, 2006, Blogger Rain said...

It really is amazing how it looks after blocking it.

It looks great.

 
At 7:11 pm, April 25, 2006, Blogger acrylik said...

It looks fantastic! One lucky friend you have there :)

 
At 8:07 pm, April 25, 2006, Blogger KnitYoga said...

Gorgeous! As you say, it's amazing how lovely lace comes up after blocking.

 
At 8:44 pm, April 25, 2006, Blogger Unknown said...

How wonderfully beautiful!! It is amazing how lace looks after blocking!!

 
At 8:57 pm, April 25, 2006, Blogger T said...

How lovely it is! Did you say that was your first lace? Well done. I couldn't do it, because I tried. 39 repeats too *shakes*

 
At 1:11 am, April 26, 2006, Blogger dreamcatcher said...

Thanks everyone! It's my first "real" lace project and apart from one or two minor mistakes it turned out very well, quite a relief really!

 
At 1:17 pm, April 26, 2006, Blogger Seahorse said...

Looks fab!

 
At 7:50 pm, April 27, 2006, Blogger Sarah said...

I love the colour it really makes the pattern of the lace stand out. I've been looking forward to seeing this since you said you'd finished on Monday. I was getting impatient! ;-)

 
At 9:06 pm, April 27, 2006, Blogger T said...

Did you like the last book?

 
At 12:54 am, April 28, 2006, Blogger Diane said...

Branching out looks absolutely gorgeous!...i did try that myself and liked the pattern but not in the yarn i'd chosen so it went into the frog pond :0)But i'm definately going to give it another go after seeing your fine specimen!The Cozy ...i'm ashamed to admit... only has an 8 row pattern, and every other row of it is purl!LOL So you can see i'm a lost cause! I'm gonna do it though , i will not be beaten :0)BTW green over all that yummy yarn again!

 

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