I finished my Elizabeth Zimmermann "Variations on Beethoven's Dickey" this past Tuesday while I was home sick from work, but I only got around to wearing it now. It's photographed on my dining room table because I was in no fit state upon completion to model it, but I'm terribly proud of myself: it's the first project I've completed for ME with my very own handspun (glitzy alpaca from Winding Creek). Here it is in its various stages:
Glitzy alpaca being spun on my Louet. Absolutely dreamy....
All skeined up and drying. It spun up so nicely it didn't even need weighting....
On the needles, about halfway finished....
Looking oddly like a manta ray in this pose, the VOBD dickie is all finished and ready to be worn.
The glitz is a tad bit itchy so it takes me a few minutes to get used to the feel of it around my neck and shoulders, but other than that it's delightful. I'll definitely be making more of these, maybe even with my current Winding Creek score, 3 luscious ounces of alpaca in a deep purplish colorway. Next time, though, I think I'll make the turtleneck a bit higher; maybe I'll even stripe it with the leftovers of the blue.
Oh, and I think I've figured out what I want to do with the green Nature Spun I picked up from Carol Lee at The Sheep Shed Studio. What do you think of this pattern? The only problem: it calls for a slightly bulkier yarn than the Nature Spun -- not bulky enough to double the NS, but too bulky to use the NS as-is unless I do a lot of converting. One thought: I may just make the smallest pattern size at my smaller gauge and get a sweater that Baby M can wear (or at least grow into). What do you think?
1 comment:
oooh, the dickey is so nice! you even spun your own yarn to make it; that's so cool!
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