How many times have you seen yarn and knitting needles at the thrift store for a song? If you are a knitter like me, you always have pieces of yarn left over after a project... half a skein here, three-quarters there. Too little to make anything nice but too much to just throw away. Try Fair Isle style.
Fair Isle is a style where you knit using two or more strands of yarn at the same time. Knit with one color while dropping the other(s) behind according to a repeating pattern. It sounds a lot more complicated than it is. Try something small at first like a hat or scarf, before working your way up to sweaters and vests. It is a great way to use small pieces of nice yarn in a large project.
One of the sweaters in the picture was sold for $200 and the other for $150. I have also made a number of these for gifts for the girls in my family. My husband wants a hat done this way.
Wow! They are beautiful, but the most complicated thing I ever knit was a pair of mittens. And I had to be babysat through the whole thing! Now I stick to scarves and baby blankets and leave the "challenging" stuff to gals like you!
ReplyDeleteOh come one. It's not a complicated as it looks.
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