Saturday, August 14, 2010

Thistle down

 
My latest project is an update on an old project.  It was intiially inspired by some motifs in a Russian crochet magazine called 'Aynaet'.  Each motif had a graph so I could work out more or less how to make them.  I joined them altogether using a 'ground' from an Irish Crochet book, added some sleeves and turned it into a cardican. 
This time I'm going to add some leaf motifs and plan it a bit more carefully.  Usually I don't plan very much and things just turn out how they do.  Sometimes good, some times not.

The yarn I'm using is 50% kid mohair and 50% nylon.  Its  very fine
 lace weight which I love for crocheting.




   This is the original cardican

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