While you could use any colorway of Colorburst by Universal Yarn this combination of purple, teal, navy, and charcoal complements the textured stitches well. This colorway is called Aurora Borealis. This shawl has lovely drape and movement and you can imagine the ridges as they wave and flow to be…
Yesterday we looked at a series of knitted stitch patterns which disrupted self-striping yarn by drawing loops of yarn up and over other stitches. In today’s post, I’ll share with you how to make this linked chain ridge across your stitches. It doesn’t disrupt stripes as much as enhances them…
I happen to love the stripes created by long color repeats, but I also like to mix things up a bit and create some visual interest for the wearer’s, and the viewer’s, eyes when I knit something striped. Monday and yesterday, we looked at some of the great characteristics of…
Colorburst by Universal Yarn comes in generous 7oz [200g] beehive-shaped balls and there’s enough yardage on each one to knit either 1 complete project or several smaller ones. Yesterday, we looked at the structure of the yarn and why I like knitting with it so much. Today, I’d like to…
I’ve been knitting for just under 44 years. That’s a lot of yarn that has slid through my fingers, some of it amazing and some of it dismal. I have yarn in my collection that is from 30 years ago…it’s just a few odd partial balls, but they bring back…