Sasha Doll Style

1 November 2011

I am working on the new Sasha doll collection at the moment - Winter Shoreline...

The colours are beautiful...  taupe, sand, cream, sky blue, sea green, greys...  some are subtle and muted whilst others are strong and dramatic reminiscent of a stormy day...

31 August 2010

Continuation of the Mini Mochi sweater is coming along... slowly...

The first sleeve is finished...  As I like my sleeves to match and the colour variation in the ball of yarn were not going to allow me to get a repeat without a lot of wastage if at all...

I carefully unravelled the yarn and cut it at the end of each colour repeat (tricky as the colours blend through each other beautifully) and then divided each of these exactly in half so that I get the movment of the colours on the sleeves to match each other as perfectly as possible.  I just like them to match and if they don't I am not as happy with them. 

It is turning out to be a very pretty sweater.

20 August 2010

I know I should be working on the duffle coat... and I have been working on it...

but Murder She Wrote was starting on BBC1...

and this ball of Mini Mochi by Crystal Palace Yarns was just calling to me...

it arrived before I went away and it has been sitting waiting for me to come home...

sitting on top of my stash, I hadn't even put it away in the appropriate storage box... (yes I have 26 storage boxes full of gorgeous wool all wound into balls and sorted into colour families awaiting use)

but the colours in this ball are just so beautiful that my resistance melted away...

the yarn is unusual... very little twist in it but incredibly soft to the touch...

11 August 2010

Beautiful short sleeve cardigan... k2 p2 rib used for a deep cuff and also for the edging. 

Beautiful multi coloured hand dyed wool made by Artist's Palette...

After I had finished knitting the cardigan I washed it and let it dry flat...

Now I need to choose buttons that will suit the cardigan and look pretty...

Haven't decided what this cardigan will go with for the outfit... possibly a dress?

The colours are warm and summery... like a rose garden...

I thought the colour of this cardigan looked beautiful on Tara's pretty redhead Sasha...

10 August 2010

This was the first garment I created while I was in Kent...  I used a variation on a slip stitch pattern I read about in a knitting magazine a few months ago... The cardigan will have a few buttons at the top front...

The yarn used is a beautiful wool rich sock yarn in a variation of colours... Loved these colours together...

Sasha travelled to Kent with me... She loved modelling in the warm weather in the garden...  The garden is large and beautiful... the quintessential cottage garden... the border in the background has only just been created in early June after the removal of a heavy evergreen hedge...

The picket fence made a gorgeous backdrop... A very pretty cardigan... just need to choose buttons now...