Oct 2020

Finally finished after being put on hold several times for yarny reasons, but so very happy when I got to get properly stuck into it!
Lots of fun things herein. :D
The whole thing is worked in stripes, so you’re only ever working with one colour at a time.
The pattern is formed by cables and slipped stitches over a garter base, ending with 2 slipped stitch laces that I spent many hours crafting especially for this design.
And the back has a surprise of its own.. :)

The final lace can be extended for a while too, if you have yarn to use up.

This pattern will be charts only as it’s nearly 180 unique rows (the WS rows are fairly plain but have just enough going on that they needed to be charted too).

Suits fingering to lightish DK.
Meas 125x55 (50x22in) on 3mm ndls.
190g total, slightly more of the green than the purple.
(Colours in the pic with the kitty aren’t accurate as the dappled sunlight was confusing the camera.)

June 2019.
This is a second permutation of Often Oddballs, Sometimes Sharks, the project that became Earthstar.

The lime/red swatch is a messy test of a bravewain I had halfway through Oddballs, of working the garter so it blends the stripes to see if this makes the background less busy, compared to the garter stripes in the orange/blue swatch. Jury still out yet.. :/

12x mini skeins (20g/80m/88y)

The wood carving pic shows where I drew the inspiration for the cable lines from. It was called a mother and child knot, I think? I adapted to a bit as I wanted the elbows to almost meet.

Knitting with a beautiful full circle of 12 rainbow minis (Jewel) from Riverknits to celebrate Pride Month, in solidarity with friends and family members in the LGBTQIA community. (Ended up frogging that one and using the yarn in All Together as I felt this design wasn’t getting the best from the mini skeins.)