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June 18, 2006
red tank
Now I can hear cry and shout of neighbors through the open window...right now there is a soccer match of Japan vs Croatia, 0-0, last half time. I don't have a TV set( though I can see it by my mobile phone) so I just listen the people during this world cup season.
Today is originally my deadline to complete Coast tank, but I cannot make it as expected...ugh. My secret project is making a bit progress though. This is "Striped Vest" from Vogue Knitting 2006 S/S, design number 25. I am making a uni-color version:
This poppy-red shimmering yarn is Japanese but I don't have th label. Composition is silk 80% and polyester 20%, the weight is around fingering/DK, so I use it 2 strands togather. I have had this yarn since 2 years ago, and never got the appropriate project for it until now. Besides I have dougted this is not my color.
I chose this design for a friend, and I showed her the swatch and she loved the color, so I kicked off. The gauge is perfect, thank God, but this design requires a seed stitch & YO combination pattern, along with its holizontally working way. It is intriguing and at the same time it is new experience for me. At first I had to struggle a bit to get used to the pattern, and I made mistakes of reading size, pattern, so I had to frog some times...it is a reason of this very slow progress. want to see the pattern?
Looks very different in uni color compering with the original stripe version. With this photos its texture looks very thick, and it is, but you cannot see the YOs which make it more windy tank.
I have two weeks by the end of the month now, I try to work...
Posted by trico at June 18, 2006 11:15 PM
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How pretty! I love the color. The yarn works well with the pattern too. It's such an interesting texture.
Posted by: Marie at June 23, 2006 04:56 PM