Hand-Dye Yarn in a Shrug

My hand-dye yarn is finally done!  It took me quite a while to finish this piece.  The actual knitting of the body is not bad at all, it was a border that took a long time. The pattern was from the Summer 07 Phildar magazine, but I didn’t have enough yarn, so I knit as I go.  The border was Rowan RYC Cashsoft in which the colour matches perfectly with my hand-dye colour which I was very happy with.  However, the border took me a long time to finish and I frogged like 5 times.  After I finished the piece I figured it curled, so I added a crochet picot border…but it didn’t help and it curled again.  Then I picked up stitches and made a k2p2  border, but it was too small so it curled in and I couldn’t even stand up straight.  I then put it aside for the longest time and didn’ teven want to look at it.  This weekend, I had decided to play with it again and I picked up more stitches and also added more stitches by around half an inch and it’s finally done!   

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For whoever that’ s interested in hand dye yarn, this is a merino wool yarn from Knitpicks and I dyed this yarn together with my best friend Craftlover, and the process of dying process can be find here.