Sunday, May 24, 2015

Trying something new

Don't you just love it when someone brings handwork to a waiting room?
I love seeing what people are working on and often learn from them.

Recently this happened and the lady was knitting with a new type of 
ribbon yarn that I had seen but had no idea how to use.

She explained that one side has semi-solid texture
while the other side had regularly spaced 'holes'.
She was knitting into these holes.

I figured it should be easy enough to translate into crochet so I too made a scarf.

One skein of Patons Pirouette, 
(similar to but not exactly what she used),
made a very long scarf with SC stitches
but since it is on the sparse side I like doubling
the scarf up when I wear it.


If you want to try this, she and I both discovered
that you need to rewind the skein so you can work from the other end.

Her yarn was in a tangle so I suggested wrapping it around a cardboard toilet paper tube.  I use this with my yarn winder for my knitting frame and is what I did and it worked well.

The tube fits well on the wooden holder I have for using balls of crochet thread and I used it for this and was pleased with how it flowed.

I love trying something new and easy and even better when it is a fast project as well.