a new design…

Thursday 2^nd December 2010

 

I’ve been designing a lot of new items for my website to sell as kits. I never seem to have any trouble thinking of new designs – the main problem is in getting them out of my head, onto a piece of paper, onto the needles … and casting them off! This design is called the Judith Ruffle Scarf and is inspired by, and dedicated to, my sister-in-law, Judith Lavery. It’s a long ruffle-boa, and the concept is that I am knitting a length of bell-shaped inserts or gaudes with a simpe lace detail, all in the lovely teal shade ‘Trance’, then edging it in a zingy lime green – ‘Jelly’ – for a foamy picot cast-off. Then (and this is where I am up to) I am knitting a plain section in garter stitch and this forms the centre section of the piece. The other ruffle will be knitted into the cast-off edge of the centre section and worked exactly as the first ruffle section. But…I might reverse the colourway…I’m not sure. However, I am sure that the concept will work and I’m confident that I, at least, will like it.

This one will go to Judith, so I’ll have to kniit another one (or two, to play with the colour options). Like its muse, this scarf will be warm, pretty, unexpected and timeless…available in kit form from February 2011.