Pattern: Pimpelliese by Christine Ebers (originally published on her blog, Spinning Martha; now available on a Google Drive of her patterns as pdfs found here)
Started: September 22, 2010
Finished: October 6, 2010
Made for: Sionan
Yarn: Patons Grace (100% cotton; 136yds = 50g)
- 2 balls of "62705 Cardinal" = 272 yds
Notes: also have 2 tubes of Darice “Toho treasure beads” 5mm triangles silver-lined red
Have strung 1 tube of beads onto 1st ball of yarn & am swatching on 3.75mm needles. Need to experiment where am placing beads as well.
9/23/10: So far so good :) Am placing 3 beads per point (ie 12 row rep) & am done 6 points as of this morning :) As I have 2 balls of yarn, I plan to knit the inc portion with 1 ball, then join in the 2nd ball to work the dec portion.9/24/10: Have 12 & a bit points done :) Going very well :)
9/27/10: Finished first ball/ half at knit-night :) Need to string beads on ball 2. Have 15 points; was 3 rows away from 16 points but ran out of yarn :p
9/30/10: After a good tv/knit time last night, I have 6 points past the half done :) Added a 2nd pic this morning; snapped it on the bus, need to get a better one.
11/20/10: must add that Sionan absolutely loved this :) Especially the teapot charm :)
Additional photos:
9/22: going well so far :)
10/06: Sionan loves Brown Betty teapots so I added this one to her present
9/30: it's coming along so nicely!
10/06: All finished. I like how the beads give it just a pop of sparkle; understated glitz
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