Friday, March 9, 2007

this might be my favorite thing i hooked up!!


(this is me accidentally pretending that i'm a model.)

So on the accidental trip to Milkfed, i ran across the black sheep knittery, and i bought a whole bunch of these expensive debbie Bliss Alpaca silk skeins. I bought like 4 or 5 of different colors of sorts. I didn't find a use for it until now... i know i said i wasn't going to crochet for awhile, but i couldn't help it... i wanted to practice knitting the owl beanie, but i didn't cast on enough stitches...so crochet it is.
Material: Debbie Bliss alpaca silk, 80% Baby Alpaca, 20% silk, 65 m/50g using a Clover 8(5mm) hook.
It is made with 2 skeins of the grape, 1 skein of the pink. Although i think i could have used just one skein each of the grape color and the pink, but since one of the skeins i had wasn't a full skein, i had to break into the second one.

i interchanged the pink because i think the grape was too overwhelming...i sorta carried the yarn up the inside, although i didn't need to because i could have made it reversible otherwise... but i like the side that shows.

the skeins that i had were tiny... so it was hard to think of smaller projects for it... but this beanie based on the boy beanie is a great way to use the small skeins!! I still have some pink and the purple yarn left over... I think I'd be able to crochet another one using it!!

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