i’m not kidding

Posted on annePosted in designing, lace/shawls

ummm, where’d that come from?

heh. yes, well.
i sat down last evening to swatch that cashmere/silk yarn the lilith sent me—remember the one i showed you yesterday?
(looks like she doesn’t have the silk/cashmere in her shop yet, but if you email her from that page, i bet she’d answer any inquiries).

and i did. swatch the yarn.

i’ve had my eye on this one stitch motif for a while, but it never worked that well in laceweight for a scarf. but here i had some fingering/sport weight yarn, and by devil, it worked a treat.

i did two swatches, one on size 5 (which i really thought was the one) and one on size 6 needles. after soaking and pinning, i could see right away that the looser swatch was just what i wanted. it looked just like a blackbery thicket . . love.

and wouldn’t you know—the name of this colorway is bramble.

“see—this was meant to be”, i thought, “maybe i’ll cast on and just get it set up by knitting a few repeats. it’s 10 o’clock now; i’ll get it started and then work on my sock while we watch TV”.

next thing i knew i had a third of the scarf done. then a half.
when we went up to watch TV, i did bring the sock along with the scarf, but i don’t think i seriously considered working on it even for a minute.

that is to say, be warned: this yarn and pattern will cast a spell on you. instead of saying just one more row, i kept saying, just one more repeat (because they’re so short, you see).

and oh, what a spell it is. please, be my guest. fall.

i really mean it—if you have been dying to try knitted lace with pattern stitches on both sides of the fabric, this is the pattern to start with. it’s so easy you will surprise yourself. you will be making knitted lace before you know it, and nary a p2tog tbl to be wrought.

i never intended to knit a whole project in seven hours—it just happened. for those who have been wondering which is the fastest little nothing, i think we have an answer—7 hours/one skein; what emergency won’t this cure?? and in fact, i know just who to gift this to.
i even knit mine a little longer than i usually like the little nothings to be, because i was so close to the end of the single skein.

i will pull the written pattern together as quick as i can.

65 thoughts on “i’m not kidding”

  1. How absolutely beautiful!! I don’t buy a lot of patterns any more as I have about 15,000 (no joke, I’ve got over 2000 books and leaflets for all of my crafts), but I may have to break down and get this one. Oh my.

  3. Amazing, simply amazing and I love it! of course blackberries and their brambles and I go back a loooong ways :^) looks positively delicious!

  4. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Who needs sleep when you’ve got such creativity abounding? I love the color. Signed – anxiously awaiting the pattern

  6. I love your new pattern and the time it took you
    to make it. Of course, it will take me a long
    time, but it looks like something I can handle.
    I am working on your Guest scarf, but I am not
    well and I am doing a lot of frogging. Do you
    have a name for this pattern yet? Did you use
    the silk/cashmere yarn that you spoke about?
    What other yarns do you think would work if we
    could not get that yarn that you have? Thank you!

  7. I love this scarf! I think this may be my favorite one so far. I love the color and think I could use my purple Zephyr for this one 🙂

  9. Oh my gosh!!! I was ready to place an order for two of your wonderful patterns, had the envelope ready to go…and then I saw this!!! My goodness, how beautiful!! The color is wonderful and I’m very impressed!! Since my lace is something of a mystery to me and I’m not so good this looks like something I could handle….soooo I’ll have to amend my order. 🙂 Are you selling the kit as well? Still drooling …..

  10. OMG, I WANT it!! It’s gorgeous — and I love blackberries. Love love love them. Off to check out the yarn…I think I know what my next project is. How do you DO that?

  12. Good Night! Lovely! I love the color and everything. This might have to be my first lace both sides project! I am really appreciating this line. I keep seeing things that I think… I could do that!

  15. unbelievable! that must have worked up at the speed of lightening. or else you found a way to slow time and just aren’t sharing. gorgeous color, pretty scarf.

  16. I just finished “That Little Scarf”, and am turning heels on Violets Rising. Sounds like time for this little beauty – you amaze me, Anne! It is awesome, but then I seem to be partial to these purplish things you create, since Gale was a 3 day project for me, even with working!

  18. Absolutely gorgeous! And I HATE purple but this makes me want to go out and buy the most purple yarn I can find and make this.

    Sooooo loverly…

  19. I just can’t believe my eyes – a gorgeous scarf in 7 hours. I think only you can do it as I can’t see myself knitting it in 7 hours. Fantastic.

  23. omg Anne- that is incredibly yummy. I would have kept on knitting too. Woo hoo – you have a real winner here!

  25. Be still my beating heart! The purple is gorgeous. I love that you designed a little nothing scarf to meet the needs of your knitters under a time crunch. This one will definitely get added to the queue too. The new phrase is… So many little nothings to knit, so little time…

  26. Seven hours? You’re not only creative, but quick to boot. I love this “little nothing” and the yarn is great!

  27. I can’t believe you knit a beautiful creation like that in just 7 wee hours! Do you own magic needles or what? I love purples. This one does look like blackberries, makes me think of biting into a slice of blackberry cobbler.

  30. Holy cow, lady! That was some quick knitting and a wonderfully apt color name to boot. Hmm, I might have to look at this one. Cashmere, ahh . . .

  32. WOW! You speed demon, you! I knew you must be a fast knitter, but seven hours?! And it looks gorgeous. I’m looking forward to this one–I’ve got lots of fingering sitting around whining that it doesn’t want to be a sock…!

  33. I love it! And I can see why it went so quickly for you (theoretically anyway; I could never knit that fast…). A kit perhaps??

  39. H.O.L.Y. C.R.A.P….you did this in 7 hours??? Good Lord woman! It is stunning and I have the perfect yarn for this one too 🙂 I swore I was going to take a little break from scarves, but I love this one too..haha!

  41. You need to apply for Ripley’s Believe it or Not!!!!!! I cannot believe you! Gorgeous!! This is what I mean by being behind!! How can I get all of your patterns, when there’s a new one every twenty-four hours??!!! I LOVE this scarf!

  42. A friend told me to check out your scarf thinking I might want to make it. It is lovely. I’m sure I have the perfect yarn for it somewhere around here!

  43. Its absolutely beautiful. Its just amazing that you knit it up in one night. I can’t knit on one project for that long. I have to switch projects every couple hours.

  44. Wonderful and amazing don’t even begin to describe that piece of lace. It is gorgeous. I can hardly wait until you get the pattern up. I will definitely be doing my first two-sided lace. Now to find the right yarn……

  47. The right pattern, the right yarn… it’s magic when it all comes together. This little scarf is some serious magic.

  48. Amazing as always! Love the color. Your tempting us again with such a beautiful project to knit.

  50. Wow, 7 hours to knit that up and it is gorgeous. Does your arm or shoulder ache when you knit for that long? I find that my right arm ache when I knit for too long.

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