Spiral Beanie

This started out as a bit of playing around. I was trying out some of the shapes from "Freeformations" using the leftover yarn from the scarf and some baby yarn. I really liked the look of it and it was already a flat circle shape so I just kept going into the classic beanie. The spiral effect isn't really obvious to a casual glance but it shows up beautifully from the top or from the rolled up sides. I love spirals and I'll definitely play with this shape some more.




Ruth wanted it to be long and a bit wider than normal so I added a few more increases than I normally would. She has lots of hair and likes to stuff it under her beanies!!! I think this would felt well if I made this again because it's big. Hmm...maybe a spiral bag would be good.









I think the scarf and the hat look great together as my lovely model shows. Ruth wore them when we went to Bendigo for the Sheep and Wool Show and we got lots of compliments so that was nice.

Ruth's Scarf

This is a current favorite. I love the way it came together. I wove the scarf on my Ashford Knitters Loom using Ashford Tekapo and Naturally Hand Knit's Aspire DK. I used a mixture of both in the warp and the weft.


This created a lovely random tartan pattern as the Aspire picked up the crossovers. Aspire is a wool/alpaca mix - very soft - that is spun to resemble a hand spun singles yarn. Both these yarns behaved beautifully and the colours are fantastic. Only problem was that the Site Supervisor i.e. Ruth, decided a beanie might be nice as well..............



The finished scarf modeled by our friend Nicky

I'm back

Well it's been awhile. I just didn't really get into this properly, but hopefully now I will. I have lots of things to post about. Ruth's hat and scarf, Kim's poncho, Lina's Hat, Mary's Scarf and the SOCKS, will do to start with. I've also got the Bendigo show stash, the visit to Bendigo Mills and the Ravelry Stash story. It's been a while. Here is a peek of some of the projects. This is Ruth's Hat and Scarf.




And this is some of my new hand spun yarn.
I'm away from home a fair bit at the moment so I'll be doing lots of crochet and weaving in the evenings so I'll try and catch up on some of my missed bits before it all becomes too much
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