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| Universal brand yarn - all cotton |
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| Berroco Fuji brand yarn - crocheted - silk, cotton, rayon, nylon |
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| Berroco Folio yarn - Ostrich plume pattern - alpaca and rayon |
Some recent items I've been working on. The denimy-blue item is a scarf for my sister. The crocheted item in the windowpane pattern is a fairly large wrap. The rose-colored item is also a wrap. All of these were completed recently, but my intentions for posting kept falling through. By the way, in reading the Portuguese Knitting book, I realized why I have a preference for doing garter stitch in purl instead of knit - several of the patterns in this book are done in purl garter. My mother and grandmother both knitted in this style (Portuguese style). My usual method of working garter stitch side borders in purl garter (instead of knit stitch) means that the back (non-stockinette) side can be purled all the way across, instead of knitting the border stitches and purling the center on the back. When my grandmother taught me to knit, she taught me the purl stitch, holding the needles "overhand" and holding the yarn in the left hand. But I never learned the knit stitch in the Portuguese style - my method is sort of a hybrid, although it is pretty fast.
ps - The wrap crocheted of Fuji yarn started with a chain of 307 - the repeat is five stitches plus 2. It is worked longways, with about 10 inches of fringe on each end.
