I'm Just A Sucker for A Knitting Sample

I think I've mentioned before that when ever I visit a LYS I almost always see something knit up that I cannot live without.  I see something and WHAM, I have to have it.  I immediately fall in love and can't leave the store without it.  Well, I have been trying to knit fabulous things for Ann's By Design that visitors to the store feel the same way about.  So, in addition to my current Kauni obsession, I have been knitting for Ann.

This was my first, a yummy cowl made out of Cascade Casablanca and a free Cascade pattern.  Go ahead!  Touch this!  Like I said, "It is yummy!"  I can't wait to make some else from this soft, soft yarn.

The colors are beautiful and the fibers are soft.

I can't wait for someone to come into Ann's By Design and fall in love with this just like I've fallen in love many times in LYS.

I was given the challenge of making something that would showcase a fiber made of strips of silk and use only one skein.  I experimented and experimented and finally did it.

I love this.  It looks like the silk is floating.  The silk pops!

It even looks great on Lidia.  The base yarn is just something I had laying around the Stash Studio, and I think I did it.  I only used one skein and made the best of the beautiful fiber.  (It's hard for me to call this yarn because it isn't.  It's strips of fabric.)  This is Leilani Arts and made in India.  It did turn out beautifully.

Everything about this is interesting.  Especially that there really are no patterns written for it and no two skeins alike.  That is kind of fun.  First I tried a scarf made out of just the Leilani, and it didn't really work.  It almost look too chaotic.  Then I tried a small purse, and that didn't do anything for me.  Then I remembered this. . . 

It is the scrumptious scarf kitted by the fabulous Kelly at Knitting On The Fringe.  I thought, "Substitute the silk fiber for the ribbon yarn!"  And I think it worked.  

The technique worked!  There is nothing new in knitting.  Just using old techniques in different ways!  

I must admit that I felt a little cheated that I wasn't working on my own knitting.  I am waiting for the wonderful women from Knitcliks to send their free pattern for Cascade Avalon to Ann's By Design.  It is an adorable bag but you can only get the pattern through LYS.  I emailed them and ask them to send it to Ann's.  Have you visited Knitcliks yet?  What a great website.  They gather information on knitting from other websites.  You can reach them at knitcliks.com  I think you will like it.  Maybe some day I will do a post on things I have learned at Knitcliks.

WOW!!!  I just got the book Sequence Knitting by Cecelia Campochiaro.  It is fabulous.  I think I may have found ways to use the exotic yarns I am collecting for A Knitter's List.  I can combine two wonderful things to create a fabulous experiment.  I LOVE IT!