It’s been cold and frosty, so obviously wonderful knitting weather! I’m bored to tears with the Lift and Separate, so have been doing a miriad of side projects such as the Stolen Moments wrap. This looks deceptively simple - a drop stitch / increase openwork pattern. However, I had to rip it back a marathon 7 times as my mind wandered and drops and increases were put in the wrong spot - one wrong stitch and the whole pattern is messed up. The yarn choice for the Stolen Moments was ‘Mousse’ by Moda Vera - a soy / wool blend. Mousse is lovely - the only drawback is that it’s quite felty - not exactly what I wanted for this project - but incredibly warm. Surprise surprise the chosen colour was a lovely warm beige :)
To show off the lace pattern, the finished article was blocked (on a foam pilates mat using dressmakers’ pins!) and left to dry. It opened up a little, but it may need to be blocked again as it’s quickly closed up again.
So, this means I’d get straight back to the Lift and Separate, right…. sadly no :(
Tikki’s Oriental Lily pattern is absolutely gorgeous - but not having smellyannoying stinky whingy adorable children myself, chose to knit it for a friend’s daughter - 4 year old Ruby. Ruby is much taller than most 4 year olds, and the pattern only goes up to 2 year old sizing, so the following alterations were made to the pattenr;
- The chosen yarn was a 10 ply yarn - Panda Zoomy. The pattern was sized using 8 ply and when I swatched the 10 ply knitted almost double the 10 ply. That worked out well because the newborn pattern size when doubled is exactly the measurements for a large four year old!
- The arms in the Oriental Lily pattern have increases to flare the sleeves. After chatting with Ruby’s Mum, we both decided that flared sleeves on a boisterous four year old were a bad idea, so I did tapered ones instead
- I used the contrast yarn to do a cuff on both the sleeves and the hem of the skirt, which itself was much longer than the pattern, and the cuff helped it to drop
- With the leftover yarn I whipped up a simple stockingette scarf (a very useful accessory for a four year old who is interested in fairy princesses)!
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Jane ·
hi, just wondering how many balls you used, and if you know of any good knitting patterns for Zoomy that only use 1 or 2 balls? Cheers, J
KathyReid ·
Hi Jane, from memory it took around 4 balls of Zoomy for the dress, and about half a ball of the white contrast. (it needs to be reknitted because the child in question has had a huge growth spurt!). The best place I would check for good Zoomy patterns would be Ravelry. I quite like these ones;
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/LoopyLilly/simple-mary-jane-style-booties-2
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/PrairieDog/calorimetry-3
Best wishes,
K.