knitty – Made by Meghan

First up, a very fun knit from the Early Fall Knitty 2010 – Coquille by Mary Lou Egan.

I knit the small size with 2 skeins of Crystal Place Mini Mochi (colour:108 – neptune rainbow), but the consensus on Ravelry seems to be that the shawl tends to take more yardage to complete (both sizes). I must knit tightly?

I absolutely loved the colours of this yarn, and originally bought it to make socks for Michael. Then the pattern came out and I was inspired to knit a Coquille instead, which I am actually happy about because I found the yarn very splitty, so even with an easy pattern I had to pay attention. The yarn also broke on me THREE times, just pulled apart with the slightest tug. I definitely would not have been a happy camper knitting socks with this yarn.

FYI – If you are a member you can check out my Ravelry Project page for more details.

Next up Mystery Socks ’09 (ravelry page) by Kirsten Kapur, which, I gather, were originally part of a KAL (Knit Along), but I laid eyes on the pattern after the mystery part of the kal was complete and LOVED them.

I had a skein of my favourite sock yarn– Handmaiden Casbah– in the Bronze colour way. I could once more rave about this yarn, but I am pretty sure I have made my feelings clear in previous posts.

I adore these socks. They fit me perfectly (I knit the size small to compensate for the bigger yarn gauge)!