I Finally Finished
something…..
Actually, a scarf.
Pattern: February Lace Scarf by Laura Nixon-Corfield (Ravelry Link)
Yarn: Cascade Venezia Worsted, which is 70% merino wool, 30% silk, in color 167, a deep green.
This was not a particularly original choice. I came into possession of one skein of the Venezia and I simply ran a Ravelry search to determine what other people had done. Someone else had used this yarn for this pattern, which was written for a fingering weight alpaca, and I thought it was pretty. That is one nice thing about scarves, you can probably knit them out of most anything and the results will vary accordingly.
Needless to say, I am very happy with the final result and I will happily wear it. It feels luxuriously soft and silky against the skin, and it is warm but not too warm. There are days when the not too warm part is very important.
I couldn't capture the actual color in either photo, it is somewhere in between, not as blue as it appears draped on the brown chair, but deeper and with more of a silky shine than is apparent in the second photo. It being winter and light being what it is up here in the NE at the moment, especially during yet another snow/ice storm, I can live with these results.
Comments
16 responses to “IFF”
Wow, that is beautiful! You are a very talented knitter.
The design is gorgeous and the colour is beautiful. Enjoy the feeling of accomplishment and the beautiful scarf.
Beautiful work!! It’s quite lovely, and I know what you mean about not TOO warm!
The color looks VERY similar to a Bompard scarf I purchased a couple of years ago in Paris. It’s a great color that seems to act almost as a neutral with other colors, or as color when played against a neutral.
Oh, I wish I had the patience to knit. Your scarf is so beautifully made!
Absolutely gorgeous, as usual!
Gorgeous! I knit a lace scarf of Seasilk in a similar colour a few years ago and, as Pseu says, it’s a wonderfully versatile shade. As for lightweight alpaca in a scarf, it’s my new favourite. I have a red lace alpaca scarf that I wear all the time, but it’s larger than this, triangular (Miriam Felton’s Icarus) — I just gave away an alpaca one v. similar size to yours and am now thinking I need to make one for myself. You’ll find this so wearable, light yet warm, and so caressing on the neck. Enjoy!
Just lovely! The colour is particularly gorgeous.
K-line, I am particularly in love with this color. I want more.
I have been thinking for some time that a lightweight alpaca scarf would be a lovely thing. I just never get to it. Perhaps I need to move the thought to a more accessible part of my brain. Im never good at planning to knit scarves, the yarn just jumps out at me and the scarf is born.
Thank you Karen and Mette!
Pseu, I am very much enamored of the color which seems to want to play with most of wardrobe. The Bompard scarf must be lovely. Sigh
Bel, thank you. It is no nice to have something new that I made myself, as opposed to just the older things, which I still love, but still.
Gigi, it was a very simple pattern with a four row repeat. But thank you for the lovely complement
Thanks for this Mardel. I had a ball of wool to use up, no pattern, no ideas; but I do now! And, big bonus – free!
Not alpaca – I wish – just yellow wool but it will keep my fingers occupied until I get out…
Goodness, this is beautiful.
Pure beauty, Mardel!