Tag: point 5

The things we do for love.

In this case, having your photo taken wearing the latest hat and scarf that your girlfriend’s just knitted.

Colinette Point 5 hat & scarf

Paul’s not mad keen on having his photo taken, but he agreed to let me snap away just this once, so I could have a fabulously manly picture to show off the hat and scarf sets.

These hats and scarves are ever so versatile – as you can see, you can wear them whilst standing in a field, leaning against a tree, and checking your email on your swanky new iPhone, all at once!

Five Scarves and a Hat.

Well, okay, not yet they’re not.

But those are the plans for this little pile of goodies from Colinette:

Colinette

  • Isis, shade Summer Berries – 100% viscose chenille type
    This one’s going to be a plain scarf, I think. It’s pointless trying to work a stitch pattern in chenille yarn, and the velvety soft finish should be interesting enough.
  • Tagliatelli, shade Paintbox – 90% merino, 10% nylon tape yarn
    Destined for a very simple garter stitch scarf. This yarn looks better and better the more you handle it, as the edges of the tape start to fray a little. Paintbox is so bright it’s practically fluorescent!
  • One Zero, shade Marble – 100% wool
    I am absolutely in love with this yarn – both the weight of it and the beautiful subtle colourway. I don’t think a lacy pattern would work with a thick-and-thin yarn, so perhaps something with cables.
  • Graffiti, shade Fresco – 100% wool
    This was my attempt at choosing a manly colour, for a manly scarf. Destined for something with ribbing, I expect.
  • Point Five, shade Tapis – 100% wool
    I bought two skeins of this, to make a new display model for my hat and scarf sets. 

All of these are destined for the Art Market on November 22nd. 

I have to admit that I did spend rather a long time squidging the parcel and poking at each individual skein before I wound them up into these pretty little wool cakes.

I may also have had a little game of “when I own a wool shop…” which is a part of my imagination that I like to retreat into every now and again. My Imaginary Wool Shop sells many things that I can’t buy locally, such as Colinette, and Addi needles, and the lovely Brittany ones which I’ve heard wonderful things about but never met in person.

But mostly, My Imaginary Wool Shop has a sofa, and a swift and a ball winder, and a library shelf, and a lot of friendly, happy knitters.

Baa Baa Black Sheep…

Ever wondered what an entire kilo of Colinette Point 5 looks like?

Colinette Point 5 - black

Well, now you know!

Colinette Point 5 jumper 

It used to be the most enormous jumper, one that I knitted for Paul a few years ago. It’s hardly been worn, so I decided it was time to reclaim the wool and turn it into something else. I’ve promised to sew a fleece for Paul instead, so at least he won’t get cold!

His main complaints about this jumper were that it was:

  1. Too heavy. Well, it did weigh an entire kilo! The style is supposed to be a funnel neck, but the sleeves are so heavy that they pull out the neckline sideways.
  2. Too hot. I suppose you would be hot, wearing half a sheep…
  3. Too cold. Yes, really. Colinette recommend that you knit this wool using 12mm needles. That’s fine for the thicker parts of the yarn, but wherever you get a thinner strand you also get a looser knit. This makes the resulting fabric a bit draughty in places, and Paul complained that the wind got through!

I must admit that I prefer to knit most Colinette yarns using smaller needles than suggested. I’m going to try a swatch of this on 10mm needles, and see how it comes out.

I’ve been looking for the perfect shrug/bolero/cropped cardigan pattern which would work in either Point 5 or Rowan Big Wool (which I also prefer to knit on smaller needles than recommended), and I haven’t found it yet.

I think it’s time to sit down with Ann Budd and a piece of graph paper, and work something out.