Luxury Knitwear

While it was excruciatingly hot outside in July and early August, I kept indoors with my stash of luxury yarns and knit away the days.  With audio books to entertain me, I had quite an enjoyable month.  I discovered Laurie R. King's Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes books and especially enjoyed knitting as those played.

I am including a selection of my new knits here.  You'll see many being worn by my young friend Sarah who is a wonderful model and was kind enough to pose for me today.  Pictures of other new pieces will follow in the next posts.

This rose colored cowl and hat are made from a bulky weight Merino Bouclé.  The designs are simple.  It is the texture and color variations in this fine Italian yarn that add interest.  This cowl is designed as a mobius strip and is wrapped around twice.


The yarns I chose for my new knitwear pieces are made primarily from mixtures of baby alpaca, mulberry silk and Merino wool. When I went to the second annual Kentucky Wool and Fiber Festival in Lexington in May, I was lucky enough to find several large cones of 100% rayon chenille being sold by a weaver. This chenille is from the former Churchill Weavers in Berea, KY and is wonderful yarn. I have incorporated the white, natural and black chenilles into some of the pieces I have been knitting this summer.

This is the same basic mobius strip design as the rose colored cowl.  Again, a simple design with wonderful yarn adding texture.  For this, I used one strand of baby alpaca yarn and one strand of looped (curly) baby alpaca.  Both are bulky weight yarns so this is a substantial piece.  It is finished off with an edging of baby alpaca in a soft camel color.



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