Way back in the annals of time… well it feels like that, even though it was only October 2012. I featured this little number.
Caplet experiment – A disaster!
It was an experiment.
The idea was good.
Now I know a bad workman/woman blames their tools, but this time the yarn was atrocious. It was only as I was working that I discovered it was a ball made of bits of yarn! I didn’t bring it back to the shop, since I bought it from a bargain lot and had it in my yarn stash for a long time. I decided to use it up and see if I could manage a garment with it.
The yarn was too thick and almost impossible to hide the ends no matter how I tried to work them in. Nevertheless, I managed to make the garment above. It was a disaster. So I binned it!
In July, the same year, I featured another idea I worked from my head.
Knitted tunic in the round
This time the knitted tunic was finished, but not the success I hoped it to be. The yarn and the stitch were not so compatible. My tunic grew dropped by the hour. Before it grew long enough to trip me up, I cast it aside. Eventually, I decided to unpick the garment and re-use the yarn.
Thus the reflection you saw in my back door the other day.
Reflection
With the positive reaction to the pink cardie, I decided to focus on it in this post.
How better to do that, than with a video.
This video lasts about 15 minutes, I hope you find it helpful.
Um. Yes. Quite. *typical glazed look most males get at these times*
I thought a Caplet was something that feuded with Montagues?
I suppose you could say it was one of my ‘typos’ or add an ‘s’; and it becomes a capsule-shaped medicinal tablet! 😉
Your pink cardie is beautiful, GM.
blessings ~ maxi
Thank you, Maxi!
Thank you for sharing the video! It is an amazingly beautiful cardie, I just about fainted when you turned it around to show the back!! but my crochet talents go as far as baby blankets. Care to make me one????(U.S.dollars please!) Pink is my favorite color!! 🙂 🙂
DM, thank you for the compliment, but I only ‘make’ for myself or my daughter. It is purely a hobby. I too struggled to learn to knit, crochet or sew, many moons ago. Trial and error and determination got me to where I am today.
well then I will continue trying! Wear it in good health- it looks beautiful both on & off 🙂
Thank you. Will do!
Not into yarn that much since I live in warm Hawaii. I like the pink color, though.
Gigi, a little of your Hawaiian weather would suit me right now!
You have such talent, GM . . . it’s beautiful.
Nancy, it keeps me out of mischief! 😉
Beautiful cardigan, and I admire how creative you are in finding the right thing for you and the yarn.
Celia, there was far too much yarn to lose and I did like the colour.
Awesome! Though I doubt I’ll have a “go”. I was surprised, however, that I remember a lot of the knitting lingo from the 70s when I was having a go at knitting. I appreciated that offhand remark near the beginning about being colder than some. I have similar problems and now I understand for the same reason. Not much extra fat to keep me warm. Now I feel better!
That layer of natural insulation makes all the difference. I never had it, thus my overcoat is a ‘walk-in-bed’ the filling is down & feathers – The best investment I ever made!
You are a very talented lady!
Thank you, and I still have a treasure trove of yarn to play with. 😀
Thanks for the talk on cardie construction. I too noticed and admired your cardie in the reflection. Dianne
Dianne, you are welcome.
You are amazingly talented! I’m just a beginner, so I a not quite up to such a project yet. But it turned out beautiful!
Delores, I too struggled at the early stages. You stick in there and one day you might make a cardie like the pink one!
Loving the salmon pink background too 🙂
Somebody told me to change it……! I’m off to read about Perth!