Jared Flood of "Brooklyn Tweed" blog, knit design, and photography fame has been releasing some beautiful pattern collections, and I selected one of his simple vests for a quick project. "Huxley" is written as a simple Fair Isle project, with a traditional all-over "lice" (dots) pattern. Since I wanted a vest out of some of my hand-painted handspun yarn, I decided to forgo the lice. I just used the pattern for its shaping. I do like the dotted pattern, and I have every intention to make a vest just like the pattern, eventually.
The handspun in question is a yarn I made in mid-2011 which I called, "Jungle Sailing" from the two colors of fiber that I combined in the yarn. Since there was only eight ounces (two bumps) of fiber in this yarn, I had expected that I would need some coordinating trim, and I selected The Fibre Company "Acadia" in the color "Blue Heron" to go with it, since it seemed to be a pretty good match for the blues in the handspun.
I broke the handspun into alternating two-row colors to the extent that I could get the yarn to cooperate. It worked better in some areas than others. I did steek the front neck in order to carry the colors across the front shoulders, but the front and back are worked flat, separately.
And, yes, I did get my hair cut! I did not necessarily want to go to this short style for its own sake... I'm transitioning from colored hair to my natural salt-and-pepper, and I'm going through the "too grown out to hide the roots any more" phase right now.
Happy Knitting,
Lisa Kay
My Ravelry Huxley project page.
The handspun in question is a yarn I made in mid-2011 which I called, "Jungle Sailing" from the two colors of fiber that I combined in the yarn. Since there was only eight ounces (two bumps) of fiber in this yarn, I had expected that I would need some coordinating trim, and I selected The Fibre Company "Acadia" in the color "Blue Heron" to go with it, since it seemed to be a pretty good match for the blues in the handspun.
I broke the handspun into alternating two-row colors to the extent that I could get the yarn to cooperate. It worked better in some areas than others. I did steek the front neck in order to carry the colors across the front shoulders, but the front and back are worked flat, separately.
And, yes, I did get my hair cut! I did not necessarily want to go to this short style for its own sake... I'm transitioning from colored hair to my natural salt-and-pepper, and I'm going through the "too grown out to hide the roots any more" phase right now.
Happy Knitting,
Lisa Kay
My Ravelry Huxley project page.
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