Eos Chunky Lace Pullover
May 28, 2013I often get teased about how many white sweaters I knit! I love white for summer and happy with this new chunky lace pullover, perfect for chilly summer evenings. Chunky and lace, two words that in knitting don't seem to often go together! But you can see from the photos that they do marry very well in this fancy over-sized sweatshirt. Pattern is Eos is by Marie Wallin from Rowan's All Seasons Chunky Collection and the yarn is Rowan's All Seasons Chunky in Foam, one of the prettiest whites available in knitting yarn. I am very familiar with white! I have reviewed the yarn before:
All Seasons Chunky is a new spring offering for Rowan. Similar to All Seasons Cotton in every way except the weight, Rowan has taken their popular aran weight and beefed it up to bulky weight. Knitted up it gave the same soft and bouncy hand and excellent stitch definition. Even though it knits up at 10 stitches per 4 inches, the fabric still feels lightweight and creates a "lighter" bulky knit than other bulkys. I'm thinking this will allow the garment not to sag as can sometimes happen with other bulky knits. Being bulky, it just zips along, done in no time.
A few particulars: No problems with splitting or slipping. Chunky is multi plied and tightly twisted into an even round thick shape and is 60% cotton/40% acrylic. It has bounce when knitting and makes fine, even, matte stockinette stitches. Very, very soft, certainly soft enough for baby. Chunky would make a great easy care baby blanket. Minimal pilling. Machine wash.
7 Comments
You finished! Squee! And you don't look like a linebacker at all! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI think you're right to make a lot of white sweaters - white really suits your coloring. And I think white is such a great color for summer. I'm a little jealous that you can wear this right now - we came home to moderate heat and a whole lot of humidity which makes it feel so much worse!
That is stunning Kristen and now I want to make one! Your roses are so beautiful :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful.
ReplyDeleteLove the sweater AND the roses :)
ReplyDeleteIt looks beautiful Kristen. I've knitted mine in Pebble...... all I've got left to do is to knit the neck and sew it up. I'll be interested how mine compares to yours with your modifications as yours fits perfectly.
ReplyDeletePS: What beautiful roses!
Kristen!! Your Eos is GORGEOUS. I love it so much – you look fabulous wearing it, too.
ReplyDeleteI won't tease you about the number of white sweaters you create, Kristen. You live in California! White is just right there for many, many months of the year! It makes sense to have lots of white sweaters from which to choose. This one is pretty. I like the lacy look of it!
ReplyDeleteYour roses are spectacular!!! I don't know that (barring the hiring of a world class gardener) I could ever cultivate roses like that here!!! They're magnificent!!! So MANY of them!!!!!! Beautiful!!!
I hope you had a good holiday weekend, and I wish you a Happy Hump Day! :-)
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