Cast on 15″ worth of stitches using both yarns. You will need to knit a swatch to find out how many stitches equal one inch.
Knit first row. Then knit every row. Every few rows, double wrap the yarn as you knit the row and drop the loops on the next row.
Cast off when you get to the length you need to to drape it luxuriously across your shoulders.
This is well worth stopping time for and making for yourself or someone you want to wrap your love around. I suggest you get used to people stopping for a second look.
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Honestly, if I get any lazier I will simply calcify.
I love knitting lace. No, what I really love is wearing lace that I have knit. The peek of shoulder through the openwork, how it seems to float around you.
What I don’t love is following those verkockte patterns with long repeats to remember. I have not been able to retain large amounts of information in my head with any success since I took the SATs in high school. So, how does a lazy, impatient, train riding knitter do lace?
Listen closely: Think thin yarn, pick thick needles. Knit all rows or purl all rows. Voila!
Lazy Hoong Yee’s Purly Girl Lace
This is glorified garter stitch done big. This is easy, no remember, no pattern, no goofing up garter stitch that says lace over your shoulder with a wink that says,” OK, OK, it’s not doily worthy knitting but it got you to look twice, didn’t it?”
This is knitting designed to move when you move. No stitch patterns to keep track of. Just purl, girl.
Here’s a little video to show you how.
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I absolutely love what Carolina Herrera loves – a simply perfect white shirt. Classic, elegant, timeless. All you stylish people know that and you probably have several of them in your closet.
photo by crazymf990
Which is exactly why I knit sweaters
I can’t imagine anything more deadening to the spirit than a roomful of well cut white shirts on well dressed people. When something like that becomes universally accepted good taste, unless it is worn with a dash of the unexpected, it quickly becomes uniform to the unimaginative.
Which, I repeat, is why I knit sweaters
To be more specific, I knit white shirts. Sweaters with the same impact as a sexy white shirt.
The sweater I am making is made with a copper colored cotton gima that knits up into an edgy stockinette stitch with a slight roll at the hems of the body and sleeves. It skims my hips, sports a low rounded V neck, long slightly flared bell sleeves and is knit loosely without any border ribbing. I intend to wear it whenever I feel the urge to wear a white shirt.
You know you want to look good, no, you know you want to look drop dead fabulous.
If everyone is wearing what everyone thinks is to die for, then how the heck do you stand out? If everyone is doing what everyone thinks they should be doing to be stylish or to be successful, how much of an impact could you possible make?
The laws of the universe are simple:
If they zig, you zag
Go where the puck isn’t
Create a need then fill it
Don’t be a big shot, wear a sweater
No matter what you do, what you strive for, what you wear.
This will take some creative thinking on your part. You need to figure out how to stand out from the madding crowd and maximize your position. With style, of course. As you can see, I am still working on my Don’t Need A White Shirt design.
Take the design of your impact into your own hands!
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As I continue on my journey getting to Wow! I look forward to seeing good friends and new friends whenever I travel to conferences. I like the energy of gathered thinkers and gamechangers who are passionate about the arts in our lives.
OK, so I’m registered, I booked my hotel, I know what sessions I am going to, who I want to see.
I just don’t know what I want to knit.
Daughter of an Engineer
You would have liked my father. He had a thing about camping in Maine, Chopin mazurkas and figuring stuff out, like pigtail bridges and cooling systems for nuclear power plants, usually on the back of envelopes in blue ink. But what he loved best was coming up with an unusual solution to a problem: “Why, we can hang those plants up with some fishing hooks!” or “Those file cabinets will make terrific dressers!”
Function, not form. I silently pinky swore to myself that I would never live an unexpected, undesigned or unWow! life.
DNA, more powerful than my pinky promise, coupled with a stack of DIY magazines overcame me in a yarn shop. Without a second glance at the pretty cottons and cashmeres, my eyes found a delicate blend of wool and steel and I fell in love. “This will look fei cheong (Cantonese for totally) fabelhaft (German for fabulous) knit up like a loose neck sculpture thing!”
You could get a little crazy like I did and string a few clear crystal beads before you start knitting and space them here and there, to look like morning dew suspended in a spider web.
Beads on steel wool. I am my father’s daughter.
How to make it
Here’s what you do if you want to create a stunning scarf that can stand on its own:
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