Dawn Brocco's Life and Design Blog

Haven't disappeared - on and off busy with showings lately. The center panel of the baby blanket design is almost ready for its steek to be sewn and cut - why not?

Why knit any flat piece flat in stranded colorwork or Fair Isle (please, they're not the same - let's not muddy terms!), when you can steek it and do it in the round.

It currently has a very unreal look to it, as it's only showing half its width, but all its length, which gives one a false sense of having knit too far. That long, skinny tube will be about 25" x 33", once opened up and before the borders are knit on.

Can't wait to show you, but not yet. Am enjoying this project mucho. Stranding is my first love.

Thinking to the future and how darn cold I feel living and working here with reduced heat (thanks oil prices), I'm dreaming of a Lopi dress. I know I saw several long wool dresses in the Rams Wool catalogs from several (many?) years ago, but foolish me, I tossed them in my seasonal clearout.

Can anyone point me to a Lopi dress pattern - (long sleeves, any length/style skirt section, as I can modify)?? It's gonna take a while to knit, so I shouldn't wait too long to start.

Happy Knitting all.

Labels: Lopi dresss pattern, steek