My beautiful Plumetis Cardigan…

My Plumetis cardigan is done!  It’s a pleasure to be a knitting tester for Sylvie. The pattern is easy to follow, it doesn’t take much yarn to make a mid/long sleeves (less than 6 balls each of 100 meters!), it’s knitted in one piece so no sewing is required.   The important thing is the lace top [...]

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Plumetis Cardigan….in progress 3

The plumetis cardigan I am working on as a knitting tester for Sylvie is coming along.  I got to thank her for the compliments she gave me. It’s a great encouragement! Now I am at the bottom of the cardigan, but the k1p1 is just long and tedious (sorry, Sylvie!)…..my right arm almost [...]

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Plumetis Cardigan - In Progress

I am a knitting tester!  I am honoured to knit this beautiful cardigan for Chez-plum

This cardigan is knitted from top down with a round yoke. I tried to knit from down to top before like this sweater, and this drop stitch tank top. I like challenging and yet beautiful patterns, so I can’t wait to [...]

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Summer Cropped Cardigan

This is a fast project, pattern from the latest summer 07 Phildar magazine.  This is my favourite colour, in a summery yarn, Kim by Filtes (again!).  I used a total of less than 7 balls.

The pattern was using a combination of two strands yarns, but I was just using one strand with the Kim and it worked [...]

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Crochet Tank Top (Original)

This was the first crochet top I did about a year ago.  By then, I just started to crochet by learning the great book Stitch n’ Bitch and their tips are wonderful.  By coming different crochet patterns, I came up with this original crocht tank top. 

The bottom was a combo of seashells, and dc, which [...]

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