I am currently obsessed with Rowan’s Shimmer yarn – Lurex in old money. In the good old days, this came in a lovely range of sparkly colours, but the new Shimmer (safer, apparently?) has a limited palette on the silver to sparkly black side with grey in between. While I mourn the loss of sparkly pink, I still love the shades we are left with. They are very wintry and clean.
I’ve been teaching a Shimmer + KSH workshop project and I’m teaching it again soon in Devon at www.spinayarndevon.co.uk so I’ve been playing with the yarn all over again.
So far I have cast-on (but then revised) a pattern for mittens with Rowan Pure Wool 4 Ply and Shimmer – but I will go back to that one. And I have now cast on (twice) for a glam pair of mitts in KSH and Shimmer. So far it looks like a snow ball with tooth picks:
mid-grey shimmer and pale dove-grey Kidsilk Haze at the 3cm of cuff stage
I’m going to knit these today and tomorrow. I should be knitting my Wooden Hill Blanket – but it’s having a little holiday at Marmalade Yarns in Frome, ooops! Kind Marmalade people are however posting it back to me…
The Frost Flower Mitts will have no fingers but half a thumb, they will have a mock-cable bit, some Lurex-on-its-own frills and thrills and some flowers.
Now: would Shimmer, Kidsilk Haze AND beads be too much … even for me…?
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