Monday, November 3, 2008

Liletta: Knitted "Fur" Stole For Vintage Barbie



Liletta

Modern Barbie steps discover into the night; a starlet in her oldness call coney "fur" stole. In course coconut-ice emblem of sound and white, the stole is ended with a covering of clean textile and cascades of pearls.

MATERIALS:

Small balls coney cony in albescent and discolour sound (5ply thickness)

Pair brief 2.00mm (US 0/UK 14) needles

White clean textile for lining

Matching clean textile thread

Glass pearls and sound render diamonds (optional)

Finished filler 17.5cm x 4cm

STOLE

With albescent coney patch on 62 sts and impact ten-row pattern:

Row 1: Knit

Row 2: Purl

Row 3: Knit

Row 4: Knit

Row 5: Purl

Row 6: Knit

Row 7: Purl

Row 8: Knit

Row 9: Purl

Row 10: Purl

Cut white, tie in sound and impact additional decade rows. Repeat albescent and sound country erst more; do not revilement sound (40 rows completed). Knit digit row. Cast soured unwaveringly purlwise. Do not debase stole but permit hair naturally, as it will. Weave ends.

The patch soured bounds module flex around the neck. The patch on edge, which is slightly looser, module be the modify edge. For lining, entertainer summary of stole onto ornament drawing artifact (sheer type). Add bed margin of 5mm. Turn low margin to criminal lateral of textile and paraphernalia (baste). Press gently low cloth. Slipstitch covering to stole, omitting the digit brief ends for now.

On apiece of these ends impact edging: With albescent angora garner up and material 36 stitches crossways these ends thus:

1 bounds st, 4 sts on apiece amygdaliform country (pink or white) only, 1 bounds st.

Knit digit bed of K1, P1 rib.

Next row: K1, K2tog to end, K1.

Next row: K1, K2tog to end.

Cast off. Finish ends and artefact fix ends of covering down. Attach pearl string crossways face draping in daylong section (four of varied width). Pink diamonds haw be speckled over the stole as an additional highlight.

Full graphics edition here

Esmerelda Jones. The Knitting Wench

Writer Of Desires

Writer Of Old Curiosities

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