Sunday, November 21, 2010

Selbu Modern

I love this hat! It’s been keeping my head warm since coming off the blocking plate! 

The pattern is lovely, Kate is such a talented designer.  The instructions very clear and easy to follow. Another fantastic thing is there isn’t many long floats - great for fair isle first timers. This was my first attempt at knitting with two colours, and if I do say so myself it’s worked out pretty well. I don’t know if my technique is quite right. I just did what felt right for me.


The baby alpaca yarn is just unbelievably AMAZING. I cannot get enough of this stuff. It’s like knitting with butter, it’s so soft! The ball band described the yarn as DK, but I thought it was a little thinner. It worked out perfectly for this pattern (which is lucky as I didn’t swatch…) I used a little over 1 skein of the main colour and about 0.8skein of the contrasting charcoal colour.


This is potentially my most successful knitted item to date!

3 comments:

  1. It's so pretty!! The colours you chose are great too.

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  2. That is lovely. I'm using Baby Alpaca DK at the moment and it is amazing. I hope my cardi turns out well because I really want it to be something I wear all the time. Sooo soft.

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  3. Thanks for your lovely comments!

    Mooncalf - I'm sure your cardi will be lovely and snuggly. I may have to follow your lead and make a some form of jumper, one item in this lovely yarn is just not enough!

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