FO: Hanami

A Hanami is finished. It’s a special gift I made for my teacher/manager Jean. If you have read my blog, I had mentioned I accomplished a 7 year program, work related, and the person who helped me got to this stage is Jean. In order to thank her, I made a Hanami. It’s so hard to choose the yarn and pattern! She said she loves creamy colour, and she wants something to wrap around the shoulder on a cool summer days. So I choose Estelle South Pacific. Do you know it’s actually hard to choose something in cotton and creamy colour? I am glad Mary’s yarn carry that!

This is a DK yarn, so I can cast on less than the pattern had asked for. And because of the yardage I have, I only repeated 4 times of the basketweave pattern.
Basketweave pattern is so hard! I love lace pattern, but basketweave is just different. It took me half way through the couple repeats to get used to it without making mistakes. I used stitch marker to mark the repeats; but realized it’s not the same stitches within each repeats every row. That was the part that took me the longest before I figured it out the hard way.

After the basketweave pattern, it was much easier to work on the lace part. It’s such a clever pattern and it’s so smooth in the transition. Brilliant! As for the lace pattern, I didn’t finish it all. It’s already long enough, so I ended it earlier.

The ruffle was also shortened but it showed well in this Hanami.

All together, 2 skeins’s used, around 500 yardage.

Hanami indeed, how do you like it?