Boo mania continues to be affecting me here. I'm a very few rows away from finishing an Almost Autumn (still diligently working my way through the Close to You collection) and I'm hoping that I'll get it done before the first clue for the Taboo MKAL arrives on Saturday. Signing up for the MKAL a few weeks ago basically led to me falling down the brand new (to me) rabbit hole of laceweight yarn, something I didn't really have in my stash and now I'm completely obsessed with it. Wanna see some pretties?
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| Lilac |
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| Hawk |
The Taboo pattern is designed for two yarns, one a solid and the other a variegated incorporating the colour of the solid. You can use either as the main yarn with the other only being used a small amount. Obviously my first reaction was to completely disregard this and go for Knit Picks Gloss Lace in two different solids. After seeing everyone else's choices I realised this probably wasn't the way to go but I won't plan any other projects with these yarns until I see the finished shawl because you never know, it might still work out. I chose shiny grey beads to tie the two yarns together.
While I spent a good amount of time ogling the recommended Wild Silk yarn on the Miss Babs website I decided that I really couldn't justify the shipping and probable customs charges involved in purchasing so I did the only semsible thing and ordered some undyed yarn from World of Wool and had a go at dyeing up something wonderful myself. I got a skein of Merino/Tussah which I've already used to knit Rainshine and a skein of 100% Tussah silk for Taboo. I wound off about 20g and reskeined it to dye my variegated yarn B leaving around 80g to dye in a solid.
In case it isn't screamingly obvious I went for a pinkish sort of theme. I was aiming to match the large skein to the dark pink colour in the small skein but I got bored of adding colouring and decided I could live with the lighter shade. I they look really quite nice together in the skein, fingers crossed they look awesome knitted up. I've chosen pearly white beads to hopefully bring everything together nicely.
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| Fyberspates Scrumptious Lace in Magenta |
Last but not least, I thought I'd better feed some more laceweight to the stash because I have a feeling I'm going to have lace shawls in my system for a while longer. Deramores had a sale that I could not resist recently and two lace lovelies found themselves winging their way to me last week. With a good percentage of silk this yarn is ridiculously shiny and gorgeous and I can't wait to knit it. I'd been a bit concerned about the Wine Gum colour as I'd seen some photos where it looked amazing and others where it looked a bit drab and underwhelming. I needn't have worried because it is glorious, I'm not normally a lover of green but this is completely winning me over. The magenta is also fab, but I knew I'd love that because Magenta!
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| Fyberspates Scrumptious Lace in Wine Gum |
So that's my little bit of stash enhancement, nearly 5000m worth but it's laceweight so that's hardly anything!
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