Monday, April 7, 2008

Sunflower for my Teacher

 

A red beret with cabled details around the top resembling the overlapping of sunflower seeds in the center of a sunflower.

Pattern: Sunflower Tam by Norah Gaughan (published in her book "Knitting Nature")

Started: April 2, 2008

Finished: April 7, 2008

Made for: Bernadette

Yarn: Ístex Álafosslopi (100% Icelandic wool; 109yds = 100g)

  • 2 skeins of 9736 Red with flecks = 218yds total

Needle size: 5.5mm/ US 9

Notes: Notes from my notebook: Wow! Looks great! Didn’t do the I-cord stem; just (K2tog)x2 & BO; ran in ends. Love how this turned out. And was so quick to do!

Bernie really liked it. (originally added to R@velry on September 22, 2009)



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