It's made from fingering weight pure alpaca from Katie at wired for Fibre. I love Katie's yarns, they are lovely and the service is great too. It's good to have her back selling again.
The pink of the light pink throw on my bed has given the wrong tone to the beret. The lower picture is much more true to life. I quite like the undyed tones, but will see if she wants a colour. I think it will suit her as it is, but this little miss has definite ideas about her clothes, so we'll see.
It's not blocked here, not even wet. I spent some time this morning after I finished it, looking through the kitchen cupboards for something to block it on. All the plates and bowls were too big or too small or the wrong size ... the band is about the same size as one of our smaller bread and butter plates but too small for the lace, but the next size up will stretch the band if I use it for the actual beret.
I still have almost 170 gm of this alpaca left. It's beautiful to use and very soft and snuggly. I'll think hard for possible patterns.
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2 comments:
It is a beautiful beret and the pink of the bed cover really made it look yellow. Katie's wool is always beautiful. We've had the doona on the bed for the last few nights too. So nice!!
It looks lovely and soft and the lace is very pretty - even unblocked! Hope you can find a suitable "blocker".
We had a blanket on the bed last night for the first time in weeks and I think we will again tonight!
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