Months ago I bought this linen on sale at Webs.
Euroflax is probably the best linen yarn on the market and it isn’t cheep, even when on sale.
I spun it into balls, this color is a little more accurate.
I started knitting.
I knit most of the body of a sweater, up to a point where I could sort of try it on. I hated it. Linen has no give whatsoever – really none. It was a big shapeless mess. So bad that I didn’t even take a picture, I just frogged the whole thing. A couple of very large balls of linen are hanging around the house. I have to use them, I don’t want to knit a shawl out of this yarn (I bought more linen for that purpose).
Remember this sweater? This could work well in linen. Heres’ the thing, I don’t like knitting the exact same thing twice. I also am not crazy about the length of the sleeves.
So my next thought is – combine patterns, make a standard neck down raglan with a V-neck till a few inches about the waist, then use this pattern to create the peplum.
So I started, I thought I had the correct number of stitches, but I wasn’t sure. Then I had a lightbulb moment, I don’t use my dress form much for sewing, but here is the perfect use for it.
So far so good, looks like I’m ok.
This is just one of the two large balls I got when frogging. I think it will be fair to say I will have knit this sweater twice.
Still looking good.
Now I need to figure out when I stop increasing, put the sleeves on scrap yarn and continue just with the body. I would like to get this right and not have to rip anything out again!
As for crochet, a friend has cancer, a bunch of us are making her a blanket, here is my contribution.
The front flower only has 7 petals, I couldn’t turn it into a square, so it will be used for something else. It’s the African flower made into a square. I love the internet, was very easy to find instructions for how to do this.