If you want to try out some Twizzle for yourself, you can find the list of shops carrying it here. Admittedly, I tend to have a tight tension, but even Ravelry calls this a worsted weight yarn. I think I would probably use a size 9 (5.5 mm) for knitting a hat or scarf. The Mountain Colors website recommends size 4-6 (3.5-4 mm) needles, but I used size 11 (8 mm) needles. So much so that neither my sister nor mother realized it was a different color on the edge.Įach hank is a healthy size – 100 grams and approximately 250 yards. Surprisingly, the two colors combined beautifully. I didn’t want to rip back (after all, who wants to redo that last row of the shawl, the one with tons of stitches, again?), so I decided to try out the Logan Berry for the bind off.
In my haste (and because I was watching a very dramatic television show at the same time), I didn’t leave enough Swift Current to bind off with.
Soon, a lovely shawlette was flying off the needles. According to the website, it’s the “wool yarn plied with a strand of silk that creates a heathered effect.” The colors are great and I love the tweedy look. Twizzle has a great feel, and unlike many soft yarns, it didn’t seem too loosely spun. Through all the ripping back and re-casting on, the yarn kept its shape and didn’t pill or split. I cast on about 10 times, experimenting with different needles and stitch patterns until I could find the right tension and a stitch pattern simple enough to showcase the yarn but interesting enough to keep me from napping. Since it was so close to the holidays, I decided to try the yarn out by making a holiday gift – a crescent shawlette for my sister. I’m happy to say that both skeins wound up quickly and there were no tangles or knots in the yarn. It didn’t seem right to review a yarn without actually trying it out, so my first step was to wind the yarn. Swift Current, on the right, includes dark navy blues with deep purple, pink and green. According to the Mountain Colors website, Logan Berry, on the left, is a “20 Year Vintage Color” and includes reds, tangerine, and purple. The beautiful colors, which unfortunately, are not perfectly captured in this picture, are hand painted. Twizzle is very soft – a fiber content of 85% Merino wool and 15% silk will do that. I loved the look of this yarn so much that I had to snap a picture right away in the post office. Back in November, the folks at Mountain Colors Yarns sent me these two hanks of a new-to-me yarn, Twizzle, to play with.
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This entry was posted in Patterns/Design Thoughts, website and tagged Crochet, dean, Design, Free pattern, hook, hooks, linda, Linda Dean, Mountain Colors, pattern, skein, stair step wrap, stitch, Stitches, twizzle, wool, Yarn by webmaster. It was made with Plymouth Yarns Arya Ebruli I have worked this up in a couple of different yarns, this one I like too. Row 64: Ch 3, sk V st, dc in turning ch, fasten off. Row 63: Ch 3, V st between dc and V st, sk dc and 1 ch, dc in next ch, turn. Row 34: Ch 3, V st bet each V st across, dc in turning ch, turn.
Row 33: Ch 3, V st between dc and V st, V st bet each V sts across, sk dc and 1 ch, dc in next ch, turn.
Row 7: Ch 3, V st between dc and V st, V st bet each V sts across, sk dc and 1 ch, V st in next ch, turn. Row 6: BegV, V st bet each V st across, dc in turning ch, turn. Row 5: Ch 3, V st between dc and V st, V st bet V sts, sk dc and 1 ch, V st in next ch, turn. Row 4: BegV, V st between next V sts, dc in turning ch, turn. Row 3: Ch 3, V st between 1 st 2 sts, sk dc and 1 ch, V st in next ch, turn. Row 2: BegV, sk 1 ch, dc in next ch, turn. Mountain Colors Twizzle light weight 85% merino wool, 15% silk yarn (100g/240 yrds) colorway LupineīegV= (Ch 4, dc in same st) counts as dc + ch 1.This should be noted on the band wrapper for the yarn, if not simply weigh all the yarn, used and unused together and divide by 2 to find the halfway point. To know if you have reached the “half way” point of a skein, you can use a kitchen scale to weigh the remaining yarn and subtract this from the total weight of the skein. It is simple enough to use any yarn in this pattern, simply choose a compatible hook for the yarn, and work the increase end of the pattern until you have used half of the yarn, then begin the decrease end of the pattern. The Stair Step Wrap increases is worked side to side, with one edge being straight and the other having all the increasing and decreasing be worked. I have always appreciated relatively simple repeat patterns that are successful with only 1 skein, so playing with this design I have actually created a few different variation.
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