Old and New

Some pictures of my latest project - one of them anyway.

I bought a couple of bags of New Zealand Corriedale wool from Aurelia http://www.aureliawool.com/ at last years Weavers and Spinners Retreat. The colourway is Paua -named for a colourfull shell. After months of spinning enough for a sweater, I started knitting. I love the roving, I love the singles and I love the way the plied yarn looks. Unfortunately I did not love the way it knit or more to the point, I did not like the way the stripes were forming, at least not when using a simple stockinette pattern. So I've done nothing with all this handspun for the past few months.
When I was moaning about this yarn at the knitting Retreat last weekend a friend suggested using a different pattern stitch. So now I'm trying the Garter Stitch Jacket from Fleece Artist. www.fleeceartist.com/projects_sweaters.html This is the new.

The old is a luxurious mohair yarn that I'm salvaging from a Value Village sweater. I do this occasionally - peruse the sweaters in thrift shops looking for fantastic yarns that have, through no fault of their own been made into ugly garments. I simply pull them apart and reknit them. It is an inexpensive and green source of yarn.

The jacket is one strand of this self striping mohair alternating with one strand of my striping (nicely now) Corriedale. I think it is very pretty and it feels lovely.