Tuesday, 1 January 2008

soft beret

I wanted to knit something warm and soft for myself, so I knitted the band with Dark brown Wensleydale and the rest of it with gey alpaca plied with dyed mohair locks, ran round the band with shirring elastic, so it stays on, making a second one now with dyed Cotswold.
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