My brother gifted me some Persian fairy floss (vanilla flavoured) for my birthday - yum!
It looked somehow familiar... and when comparing it to the banana spinning fiber in my stash - it's actually hard to tell them apart (one smells better).
Hope everyone had a good Easter holidays. We've had a lot of holiday time lately, with our trip to New Zealand, followed by Easter, followed by Anzac Day.
I didn't find as many fibery creatures as I hoped on our travels - but lots of sheepy soft-toys, and amazing scenery everywhere we went (thanks to gfxmonk for taking most of our picies).
Last night I cast off my twin leaf Julissa. This sweater project took around seven months, but I think this was partly due to it becoming a little too heavy to take on the train each day.
Knitting in progress.
I used the Julissa pattern as a base to help me learn how to construct top-down sweaters, then heavily customised it into a cardigan and replaced the front cable with a twin leaf lace pattern. This was perhaps a bit of a silly way to go about learning top down sweater construction (there being many other great patterns out there), but I'd heard such good things about this pattern that it tempted me to give it a go. I will likely make a true Julissa one day following the pattern properly.
While I'm blocking and photographing my Julissa I'm already looking for a new sweater project. I keep being drawn to tops worn over dresses (like Jetshin's beautiful sweaters), so here are some of the patterns I'm considering:
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