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31 August 2006
felted leaves and skull vests
i knit up a little basket with a mobius handle with the beautiful autumnal Malabrigo yarn. 
this is the floppy before felting picture--doesn't look like much, eh? but after, oh the delicious results that 
felting brought on. man, this yarn was made for felting. i made a felted bag with Cascade 220, and hand felted it in the sink....it took close to two hours to felt. the malabrigo took all of ten minutes. i adore how the finished product looks, and i'm definetly going to do more felting with the malabrigo. i've got ideas for a lightly felted sweater coat thing floating around in my head. i need to do some swatching and sketching and try to get it out of my head and into actual practice, so we'll see.
i swatched up the Merino style i got yesterday from knitpicks. i had an idea for incorporating some skulls into the argyle pattern of Eunny's Deep V-neck Vest for a friend of mine's birthday. she's a little retarded for skulls on things. anywho, after about 2 days of charting different skulls and seeing how they interacted with the argyle pattern, i ended up with a swatch. 
the skull is a mismash of different ones that i found with a google search. i love how the skull is a subtle design that almost meshes with the argyle, making it a little more tasteful and less gaudy (imho). i use 3.25mm needles, and (cross your fingers) i think that i may have actually gotten gauge. we'll see when it dries!
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Comments
The hidden skull is so cool. I love the idea. Good job!
Posted by: hooney | 01 September 2006
Skulls and argyle?! What a super combination!
That is a tremendous gift!
Posted by: Kate | 01 September 2006
wow . that skull arglye combo is brilliant. I wish you were my freind so you could knit me one! I definately don't have the patience for all that! Gorgeous though!
Posted by: uglyagnes | 01 September 2006
Completely awesome - that's all I can say! Your skully argyle is brilliant! Your friend is gonna LOVE it!
Posted by: Dani | 01 September 2006
I'm not much of a skull person, but that is a Most Excellent skull indeed!
Posted by: Dave | 01 September 2006
That is absolutely genius! I never would've thought to try something like that, and it looks great!
Posted by: jen | 01 September 2006
Awesome, Lady! Meanie's gonna love it!
Posted by: G | 01 September 2006
oh the colors on that basket are fabulous! & I so want that chart for the skull argyle. I too have a friend who is a little retarded for skulls
Posted by: kat | 01 September 2006
I love your felted mobius basket. And your morbid argyle. And such a lovely site!
Posted by: Bottom | 03 September 2006
Wow, I bought those exact same colors in merino style for a Deep V vest! They look great knit up...I'm still undecided about whether or not to knit it with that yarn, since it's caused issues for so many folks. Love the skulls, too!
Posted by: Kerry | 07 September 2006