The rest of my MadelineTosh arrived last week and I am at last ready to start making giraffes!
From left to right: Victory Garden, Lettuce Leaf, Citrus, Bark and Ginseng.
I LOVE ginseng - I think it is one of my favorite colorways ever, and all of them are luscious and beautiful and perfect giraffe colors... except perhaps for Victory Garden which I bought more because it looked like a pretty colorway than for its giraffe-appropriateness. It's not as light as some of the others I've seen photographed (eg this one) but I like it all the same.
Of course now I have been obsessing about which combinations to use for how many giraffes of what size... all the solids plus ginseng look great with the citrus zinger and victory garden and lettuce leaf look good together too for some other project.
I'm also thinking now of 3-color projects - a sock giraffe (ravelry, pattern) as well as a Baby Surprise Jacket or three.
For now, I have started on a very tiny giraffe in citrus zinger and ginseng - I finished all four legs last night. Yes, I am finally knitting with some Sundara and I have to say that I love it all the more!!! The yarn is sproingy and gorgeous to knit with. The colorwork on the legs is fiddly and it's hard to tell how the MadelineTosh is as I am not knitting with it on its own ever but so far this is looking to be one cute little giraffe...
Oh that is such a cute pattern, I have it queued up too! Yours are going to be beyond beautiful using that gorgeous Madeline Tosh wool. I plan on using stash yarn for mine!
Your baby is going to have the finest knitted objects on the planet!!
Posted by: knithoundbrooklyn | Tuesday, October 07, 2008 at 10:23 AM