Close Knitters

Knitting a what? Yes, Maggie is knitting her wedding dress. It’s going to be a fuzzy cashmere wonder. Rowan’s Arwen Gown (Rowan Magazine 40) is a long sleeveless dress, knit of kidsilk haze, with beads scattered throughout the skirt.

Here’s the yarn

The yarn is Superior, from Filatura Di Crosa, fluffy cashmere wrapped around a silk core. The knitting has begun:

This is the start of one of the back panels-

There are six panels in the skirt. The bodice is lined, Maggie has a gold fabric chosen.

When is the wedding? When the dress is done!

Customers have been asking about “that scarfish sort of thing in the mall.” It’s a long loop, and looks nice when it’s wrapped twisted around your neck. Something like this-

When it’s doubled it looks like this-