Projects should be 80% CM yarns with no more than 20% of other yarns. These percentages are calculated by weight, not yardage.

Yarn uses:
CM silk: 342.8g - 106.5g = 236.3g or 81.6%
Sea Silk: 53.2g or 18.4%
Sum: 289.5g

Well, the project will qualify for the competition

Ball1: 98.9g - 53.2g = 45.7g
Ball2: 91.2g - 84.6g = 6.6g

Target: A sleeveless summer top with a slight A-line in garter stitch knitted sideways. Front and back the same. The A-line is achieved by short row ‘triangles’ in the contrast colour (3 or 4 per front and back) with an I-cord running along the edges in that same cc as well. Bust line: no or slight ease though I’m not sure about this as I don’t expect my small swatch behaving the same as the finished piece. So if it stretches more and there’s positive ease that is fine as well. If I don’t match the required 80/20 yarn relationship between the yarns, or if the neck/sleeve-lines stretch too much, or just in any case I might just knit a small stripe with the main colour peeping out from under all three edges which will give it a kind of ‘layered’ look.

3 stitch I-cord:

• ’normal’: RS - knit, slip, knit / WS: slip, knit, slip
• increase side: RS: *k3 / slip back to LH needle / loop main colour around RH needle* repeat as many times as needed / turn work and sl3
• decrease side:
• start I-cord neckline and 2nd sleeveline: prov CO as in Tahesha plus slip knot to fix contrast colour

14 April 2021

Well, with all the kitten knittin’ this project got a little neglected ;) I only need to Kitchener it together and wash it :) And, find a way to weave in the ends and for them not slide or wiggle their way back out!

But for now, the Kitchener seam as I need the 3mm circ for blanket’s 2 sides are getting too long for the DPNS…

26 March 2021

It’s coming along nicely :))) and I’m nearly 3/4 round! I think I acutally like it…

When I came to the first shoulder seem I shortly debated with myself to close it on the go as planned or leave the it to seam in the end in case it doesn’t look ‘nice’ and me wanting to redo it. But to see how it looks I’d have to knit say 4-6 rows to be able to see how it turns out…

The thing is I don’t want to frog with this yarn, I’d have to be very carefull the stitches don’t disapear running further down - the sea silk is really slippy and the silk is pretty splitty! And tinking 100s of stitches???

Anyway, with the yarn being slippery weaving in additional ends isn’t my favourite either so I went with the original plan and closed the first shoulder seam on the go:

• finish the row
• with a crochet hook grab 2 looks from the already knitted row on the ‘other’ side and pull the working yarn through
• lift the loop onto the RH needle
• turn work and ssk the the ‘loop’ and the first stitch togehter while pulling the working yarn really tight

It looks good and I’m happy with it

20 Mar 2021

It’s the time! The CM spring competition has started and I’m trying to work on an idea I’ve been having a while… though I’m not sure it will turn out to my liking: the dark blue silk with some ‘triangles’ of the Hand Maiden Sea Silk! I’m not sure either if it will fit in the required weight(?) restrictions for CM/other yarn but I feel like starting something new!!!