Thursday 5 June 2008

Semi-Precious Scarf

Here is the scarf that I created with my Artisan Yarns, plant dyed silk:

I was curious about the yarn and I wanted to see what I could do with it. It took a bit of swatching to see what would work before the penny dropped and I fixed on an idea that I thought I could live with.

It is odd, it doesn't look as interesting in these photos as it does in person. I ended up working the yarn together with something else, plus some beads but my camera battery died before I managed to get any decent photos of my beading. So I can post some more photos later if anyone is interested.

So far, feedback from both knitters and non knitters has been positive. So I am thinking that this might be a good way to knit up those skeins of strange yarn that you fall for at knitting shows but have absolutely no idea what to do with later?

Hmm, who knows?!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

You need to show the close up of the stitchery - it's so beautiful and unusual! These pictures are very pretty but no, they don't show the true glory of it.

Roobeedoo said...

ooh - purple! I know that stitch! I had a turquoise acrylic "tabard" in that stitch in the 1970's - mmm, yum, yum, thanks mum!

Anonymous said...

Um, more pictures please, can't quite get a sense of the stitches.

the small gallery said...

Me too, I would like more pictures and what's the frilly bit on the edges. Also can I have pattern for this and the other very easy scarf.. Also when do you have any time to put me up for the weekend so I can see all these projects in real time. Going to France next weekend for a week's plant dyeing!!