So I’ve been spinning a lot this year as one of my goals is to knit more lace projects with my own hand spun yarns. I purchased some beautiful Madder dyed BFL from “A Verb For Keeping Warm” and spun it with the Majacraft Rose using the lace flyer/fat core bobbin combination. I am using the yarn to knit a . . . → Read More: The Saigon Scarf (and other knitting)]]>

So I’ve been spinning a lot this year as one of my goals is to knit more lace projects with my own hand spun yarns. I purchased some beautiful Madder dyed BFL from “A Verb For Keeping Warm” and spun it with the Majacraft Rose using the lace flyer/fat core bobbin combination. I am using the yarn to knit a stole from a Japanese book “Vintage Knitting in Tradition” and the pattern is captioned “Cloches a travers les feuilles” which translates into “Your guess is as good as mine!” I’m using US 0 needles.  Below you can see that I have finished The Saigon Scarf from badcatdesigns using hand spun lace weight yarn I made from fiber purchased from Spritely Goods. It came out pretty though my pictures don’t do it justice.  I only have 4 more rows for my International Shawl and though it is not for competition or for raffle, I will post when done since the Seasons of Lace is keeping me on my goal of finishing

For the Ravelry group “One Shawl To Rule Them All”, I’m knitting something different than the rest of the “Elven” group, but we are allowed to diverge. It’s called “The Saigon Scarf” by Badcatdesigns and is a free pattern on Ravelry.  I’m using a lace weight yarn I spun from fibers I puchased at  Spritely Goods in the “Palo . . . → Read More: Saigon Scarf]]>

For the Ravelry group “One Shawl To Rule Them All”, I’m knitting something different than the rest of the “Elven” group, but we are allowed to diverge. It’s called “The Saigon Scarf” by Badcatdesigns and is a free pattern on Ravelry.  I’m using a lace weight yarn I spun from fibers I puchased at  Spritely Goods in the “Palo Verde” colorway. It’s a combination of merino, alpaca, firestar and angelina with beads for accent. I’m using size 3.25 mm needles or US 3.