Ritzy Glitzy Scarf Belt

With DMC Coton Perlé 8 taken double this scarf is for Valerie - the pattern is Queen Anne's Lace once again. I sewed together two fancy buttons to hold the scarf or belt together where needed. In a shorter version it would look wonderful as a cowl or scarflet, I am sure.
In the bottom picture you can see the loop for the neck to the left of the button.

LUFFS

At the moment, Valerie's PC is standing on a glass table and her thin arms get cold when typing on the keyboard - so this fingerless "manchon", long cuffs or gauntlets should protect her against the cold. I used some of my first handspun wool and silk yarn in this project. The grey parts are either knit double with padding inside or done with brioche stitches, occasionally adding small strands of unspun sheep wool.
And I just found out that the use of unspun fleece in these gauntlets has a name: THRUMMING. Whisps of unspun fleece or roven is added now and then to the regular yarn and knitted into the rows, adding warmth and a nice fluffy and hazy touch!
Here's a link to the thrumming technique Hello Yarns

Tiny Rippling Waves

This is the second scarf I make from Knitting New Scarves by Lynne Barr.
The pattern is an easy repeat, the waves generating extra warmth by the doubled structure, while the technique for the waves comes into good stead for other self-designed projects. Lynne Barr's architectural, three-dimensional approach to the 27 scarves in her book is exceptional and innovative.


The first scarf from the
book Knitting New Scarves
by Lynne Barr was for Anthony

Pattern name: Striped Illusions.
I like having small projects on the side. I would not necessarily call them mindless knitting, but they do let you relax and your mind wander, across large distances and time.
A day later. Come to think of it: those small projects always deal with a new or neglected technique or stitch pattern, new color combinations or design tests - so nothing is lost, it all serves a purpose!

Back to Square One - LF Reknitting Vignettes

The NEW first vignette is made of of black DMC cotton, with a few knitted in golden seed beads.
Three rows of garter stitch MEZ embroidery floss, golden Anny Blatt ribbon, followed by dark chocolate brown Lana Grossa Sari, mirroring the Central Panel colour scheme.

The previous first
vignette was simply
too narrow and the
yarn for the second
vignette too thick,
which cause the
second vignette to
spread out too much.
So it was back to
square one, or rather to the central panel.

LF - Golden and Brown - Vignettes 1, 2, 3, 4,

Last day of a gloriously sunny September:
Added Vignette 1 to the left and right of the Central Panel.
I had no suitable multicolor yarn, so I plied one thread each of 6-split blue and brown MEZ embroidery floss skeins and of one Schürer JS mercerized curry-colored yarn. Both Vignette 1 parts hence are made of fine three-ply cotton and will wrap softly around the neck, not adding bulk either.
Added Vignettes 2, 3 and 4 on both sides.

Little Fishies - Golden and Brown - Central Panel

A famous design by Jane Thornley, LITTLE FISHIES.
Again for Valerie, this time the color of choice is brown.
First step is the Central Panel

Wrap for Valerie

This is a wavy wrap for Valerie. for Valerie. Click here and here
for a full view of the front and the back. I used Austerman Fancy Mix, which is a lesson in taking it as it comes. It is like a Zauberball, one never knows which structure or color hue will be unwinding from the ball.

Based on Valerie's preference of the color fuscia, I am framing fuscia color sections in black to make them stand out and set the color mood.

The pattern is based on the Feather and Fan Organic Wrap by Jane Thornley. Instead of Jane's feather and fan stitch pattern, I use Jane's long stitches for creating waves by wrapping the yarn once, twice or three times around the needle and letting the YO drop in the next row. The ingenious increasing/decreasing pattern remains the same though.

Yarn - mainly the Austerman Fancy Mix












Front with reinforced neck line in black.
Closure with a pin or wrapping, nomen est omen!
Back shows framed fuscia color.