wear silk on the Orient Express ...

Pattern:  Orient Express by Susan Ashcroft

Status Finished

Started May 23 2012

Completed May 27 2012 

 

Needle and yarn

Needle

US 6 - 4.0 mm

 

Yarn

Drachenwolle Sockenwolle mit Seide und Ramie

How much? 1 skein = 438.0 yards (400.5m)

Colorway: brownish

Purchased at Drachenwolle in Dusslingen, Baden-Wurttemberg

Purchase date: January 2008

 

Notes 

 

Wonderful pattern, great and quick knit!
Thanks to catger for this pattern-present! :-D

Nice yarn, although a bit stiff while knitting….but it softens up a little while soaking :-)

modelled by Cynthia, my youngest daughter (12)

"Geometrical Lunatics" ;-P

 ... is what always comes to my mind, when reading the name of the pattern ..lol

Lunatis Geometria by Sara Louise Bygvraa

Status Finished

Started May 21 2012

Completed May 22 2012

Needle and yarn 
 

Needle: 3,5 mm

Yarn

Wetterhoff Silvia

How much?

1 skeins = 547.0 yards (500.2m)

Colorway: grey

Purchased at: a gift from Rubanna 

 

Notes:

Beautiful pattern, although the start from the bottom upwards is a pain ... but it gets really quick at the end (which is nice!) and it has a lovely result.

 

I would like to recommend to bind off using the I-cord bindoff, because a simple bindoff doesn't give a sturdy enough edging and it tends to roll in while wearing it ;-)

It needs blocking .... I know ;-)

 

 

Magical Moments on the TGV

 

TGV (High Speed Knitting) by Susan Ashcroft

Status Finished

Started May 15 2012

Completed May 19 2012 

 

Needle: 3,5 mm

Yarn

Lang Yarns Jawoll Magic Dégradé

How much?

1 skein = 437.0 yards (399.6m)

Colorway : 85.0066

Color family: Black-Pink

Purchased at: this was a gift

 

Notes

Started out as “Orient Express”, but I changed my mind and this is going to be a “TGV” … 

(yes! another one! *giggles madly*)

going to choose some other yarn for the OE … something to bring out the lace more.

 

 Once again VERY HAPPY with the result :-D

 

 modelled by youngest daughter (12 years old)

 

There are pink seashells, aren't there?

Simply Seashells by Susan Ashcroft

Status Finished

Started May 3 2012

Completed May 14 2012 

Needles:

US 4 - 3.5 mm

US 6 - 4.0 mm

Yarn:

Drachenwolle Sockenwolle Handgefärbt

How much? 1 skein = 459.0 yards (419.7m)

Colorway  this is an old DW - from 2007 I think

Color family Pink

Purchased at Drachenwolle in Dusslingen, Baden-Wurttemberg

Purchase date December 2007

Notes:

I loved every single moment of this knit ... the yarn, the pattern, the colours!

It is supposed to be a quick knit, but I had to be quite busy doing other things ... so this took a while.

I donated it to be bid on for a charity event and the proceeds of it  (a 35 whooping Euros ... yay!) 

went to a charity called "Wünsch Dir Was"

Rocky Mountaineer

 

 

 

Rocky Mountaineer by Susan Ashcroft 

 

 

Status Finished

Started April 26 2012

Completed May 1 2012 

 

knitted for WDW-Treff 2012 - winner was hundschnuffelchen

 

Needle and yarn

Needle US 6 - 4.0 mm

 

Yarn:Rico Design Superba Poems

How much? 1 skein = 459.0 yards (419.7m)

 

Notes

The pattern is beautiful! The shawl is gorgeous!
Wonderfully written and easy to follow!
Susan, you are a genius! ♥

 

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  The yarn was giving me a hard time…
changing from parts where it was a Sport-weight rather than fingering to parts where is was more like a lace-yarn…keeping tension was very hard because of that.
The colours of the yarn are lovely though… but I would never buy this yarn again!