Ok, this is my newiest favrourite.
From Fly Designs Lace Weight Cashmara with Blood Red as the main colour, and Ebony, and Pepper as the accent colours. The laceweight yarn is 80% superwash merino, 10% cashmere, and 10% nylon; 590 yds/4 oz. I also used deep red wooly nylon reinforcement on the heels and toes.
This size Small pair, knit with the 72 cylinder and 36 ribber on the Verdun 47. Cashmara is such a beautiful yarn to knit and to wear. Working the small pair on 72 needles at 3/4 turn tighter tension than my ‘normal’ setting makes for very tiny stitches – a wonderful fabric.
Wondferful except for weaving in the ends of the black, trying to find the purl loops to slip my ends through – ay karamuba.
This is also my favourite colour of red – the deep blood red. I don’t know Pat Fly’s recipe for this – but when I dye my own I add a smidge of black dye to primary red to get this rich depth of colour.
I’ve got a drawer full of cashmara ends from other binges, and one of the nice things about knitting argyles it that you use a lot of small pieces, so a perfect use.
Here’s a view inside my sock knitter, mid-argyle. I use the clothespins on the leading tail when I begin a new colour - that holds the yarn down so it doesn’t rise up while knitting past it. Once that tail is actually knit into the work I remove the clothes pin. That way I’ve never got more than 3 pins in the work.






























