I jumped on the occassion! Literally. I have never worked with Wollmeise so that was a chance for me to work with it AND to have some in my stash! Plus, I love knitting lace shawls but my bf kinda thinks that a girl can have enough shawls. We will brush over the fact that he is very wrong of course.
So I made a selection of shawls that I'd be happy to knit for her and she chose Hidcote Garden by Miriam Felton (I love her designs). I will add some beads to the last chart. She sent me a skein of Wollmeise lace in the Rosenrot colourway and it's just gorgeous. Deep and lighter reds. It's going to be a really pretty shawl. Please excuse the pictures, they don't do the colour justice. Reds are really tricky to photograph.
Now, you have to know that that skein is 300g! That in itself is huge. It is more than 1500m. The yarn is called a laceweight but to me it looks more like a light or very light fingering weight. For comparison, here's a picture of the Wollmeise next to some J. Knits lace-a-licious. The J. Knits is 100g and 1000m. See what I mean about the weight of the Wollmeise?
After squeeshing the skein for a while I had to wind it. Remember my move? Yes, both swift and ballwinder are still in France. The ballwinder wouldn't have been much use as it can only take 100g of yarn or so and I wanted to keep the skein intact. The swift would have been really nice though as I settle to handwind the yarn. Yes, you heard me! I handwound that huge skein. I think it took me shy of 2 hours in 2 sessions. Luckily, the legs of an upturned chair are the good size to hold the yarn.
It was tiring but it was far from an unpleasant experience to wind all that yarn. There wasn't a single knot in the skein and no tangle.
The result of the winding is a giant ball of yarn that is almost as big as my head and now I'll have the pleasure to knit with it.
1 comments:
Hehe, great picture of the final product.
That's a good idea to use the legs of an upturned chair as a swift.
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