I vowed to knit more from handspun in 2014 and I’m making excellent progress. I just finished my second such project of 2014.
The pattern is Marigold, by Susanna IC. The original was knitted in a stunning variegated orange sock yarn, by Socktopus, which sadly has been discontinued.
I chose a two-ply yarn I spun from Sweet Georgia BFL+Silk in the Woodland colorway.
I love the greens and golds in this fiber. It’s a very well-named colorway. A friend in my knitting group, admiring the yarn, actually said, “It reminds me of a woodland.” She said this completely unprompted. I hadn’t even had the chance to plant the word in her mind through hours of seemingly-random suggestion. Cool, huh?
- My two-ply.
Modifications:
1) I knitted four extra repeats of the center lace pattern in my shawl. Not on purpose. It was one of those things where I decided, after I had already done it, that I might as well go with it. So after I had made the mistake on one half on the shawl, I duplicated it on the other side. It makes the shawl a bit longer. I had to block it in two parts because I ran out of space.
2) The original pattern called for beads. I left those out and I don’t think I miss them. I didn’t have anything in my (very small) bead stash that was right for this shawl anyway.
All She Wants To Do Is Knit 
Fabulous. I love all your work.
Thanks. I had meant to be knitting sweaters this winter, but lace keeps coming out of my needles. Maybe I need new needles….
Very soft and gentle looking. Nice use of your hand
spun!
Thanks! I’m trying to be careful about picking forgiving patterns for my handspun.
Now I have to decide who it’s for. I may be getting WAY ahead on my Christmas knitting.
Beautiful! How do you do your two ply with variegated as far as lining up colors?
Honestly, I didn’t do anything. I had two braids of the same colorway and spun them straight. Then wound them off onto two spare bobbins and plied them. Now that I’ve had some classes about color in spinning I might choose to do my blending/not blending more intentionally.
Well it turned out great!
Great work. The green and gold together is a nice combination.
I just love those colors together.
Beautiful!
Absolutely gorgeous !
Thanks.
It’s lovely! The pattern suits your hand spun perfectly.
Thanks. It can be a challenge to pick the right thing for my handspun.
You do realise that Socktopus still lives, don’t you? whimzy.co.uk It’s run by Ling now (Alice Yu’s partner who took over the yarn dyeing business). I’m very happy I rediscovered it….!!
More importantly, love your shawl! Your spinning is amazing.
I wasn’t sure. I just know that wonderful orange yarn was marked discontinued. Glad to know IT LIVES
I think it’s quite confusing how that was done. It’s still the same base, same dyer, just different business name. I only stumbled across the new website recently – quite happy now! 😀
The shawl is truly a thing of beauty. I think adding the repeats was a wise move. Many of my best mistakes turn into wise moves.
Convenient, that. 🙂
Beautiful! I love the modifications you made. Susannah IC is one of my favorite designers.Fabulous spinner and knitter!
Sounds like it’ll be lovely. Can’t wait to see!
Erm…or I’m an idiot and missed that the first few pictures are not, in fact, the designer’s samples. D’oh. In that case, it *is* lovely!
Hah. That’s a rare compliment. Thanks.
I love the combination of yarn and pattern. Lovely and harmonious 🙂
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
gorgeous, perfectly gorgeous !
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I love the color! and I too like to knit more with my hand spun yarn!
I might want to dye some of my fleece that color! love ..love..love!
Beautiful!