I finished up the Arachne mitts and cowl set I had been working on for Terry at Snowshow Farms. (And if you are planning on going to SPA this year - please stop by her booth and say hi! She'll have the pattern kitted up with some of her decadent 100% alpaca fingering weight there too.)
You already saw pics of the cowl, but here's a reminder:
The original yarn used is one skein of Terry's Snowshoe Farm Alpaca fingering-weight yarn in the "Tweed" colorway. However, the pattern is suitable for any soft fingering-weight yarn. It takes approximately 125 yards for the cowl and there are notes for adding beads if you'd like to do that as a little added detail.
You can also get a pair of the fingerless mitts from the same skein of yarn - they take approximately 135 yards. (I had probably 40 yards or so left over from the 300-yard skein I started with). The mitts have the lace stitch used for the cuff (which may also be beaded or not - knitter's choice), and a simple stockinette hand which knits up very quickly.
If you've already got a skein of luxury yarn to use up, I've got the pattern already set up on Ravelry as a downloadable PDF (and includes both the mitts and cowl pattern). Lots of pictures, both a chart and written instructions, and some technical notes to help you add beads if you decide you'd like to do that. You can find the link to the downloadable PDF here.
All for now......
Lovely. What's SPA?
Posted by: Mary Lou | February 07, 2011 at 06:02 AM
The yarn and pattern just exude soft and luxuriousness. Nice!
Posted by: margene | February 07, 2011 at 08:13 AM
Ooooh! I have some alpaca left over from when I made my Dragon Scale Fingerless Mitts! woot!
Posted by: Marji | February 07, 2011 at 09:37 AM
Lovely and a great way to put luxury yarn to best use - at your most sensitive and cold places :-)
Posted by: Kristi aka FiberFool | February 07, 2011 at 11:44 AM
So beautiful! Already queued up.
Posted by: Laurie | February 07, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Love the pattern ...but could tell that it was alpaca before I read it! I'm knitting with some now (forcing myself to use it as it was rather pricey laceweight) and after about an hour it starts to itch and burn. Bad allergy.
Posted by: Kristin | February 07, 2011 at 12:35 PM
Pretty! And great to get two things out of one skein!
Posted by: elizabeth | February 07, 2011 at 01:31 PM