Chritmas time... First present has arrived...

This is a present I asked for Christmas, realised with a help of my friend Stefania and negozio Fiordilana (www.fiordilana.it). With Alpaca Party 25% off, I asked for this gorgeous Drops yarns.

 400 gr of Andes (wool 65%, alpaca 35%) for Cool Wool set.

450 gr di BabyAlpaca Silk 4314 gray for don't know still which project (in any case some vintage pull).

450 gr di Alpaca Mix 7323 green for Olivia di Kim Hargreaves http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/olivia-2

 600 gr of Alpaca Mix 8120 blue for Accessory for your spring suit

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/accessory-for-your-spring-suit

450 gr of Alpaca 2923 yellow for something between Summery and Ena's sweater

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/summery---and-a-new-pattern

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/enas-sweater

Frilly jumper.

This jumper is one of my favorite. Frilly jumper from the book "A Stith in Time, Knitting and Crochet Patterns, 1920-1949 Vol.1"

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/frilly-jumper

It is one of the patterns which can be knitted like the original, retro, tight fitted jumper, or this way, more modern, loose version. And you can see on Ravelry, they are all beautiful. It is a pattern difficult to spoil.

To my surprise (shame on me that I didn't understand it before starting knitting) this pull is made in one piece. First I thought it was a mistake (instead of the stitches it was written the rows). 

As always, I had to do the modifications according to my gauge and yarn, and also I preffered to change the square neck line to more smooth round-shaped. 

Also I prefered not to knit the frills separately, so I change even the frills pattern. They are knitted in the round with the number of stitches multiple of 7.

Row 1: K7. 

Knit following 3 rows. 

Row 5: K6, yfwd, k1, yfwd.

Row 6: K9.

Row 7: K7, yfwd, k1, yfwd, K1.

Row 8: 11.

Row 9: K8, yfwd, k1, yfwd; K2.

Row 10: K13.

Row 11: K9, yfwd, k1, yfwd, K3.

Row 12: K15.

Change to half a size smaller needles

Row 13: P15.

Row 14: K15.

Row 15: P15 and cast off at the same time.

One row of reverse sc (crab stitch).

On the lower side of the body before making the frills I knitted 12 rows of Rib 2x2 with eyelets for the cord knitted within every 4 stitches.

Cool Wool set.

 

A couple of weeks ago I've finished this set, based on one of the prettiest patterns of Ravelry by Ekaterina Blanchard - Cool Wool.

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cool-wool

I’m not sure what kind of yarn it is, it is waxed, and after washing becomes so smooth and light, that it can be even blended cashmir. I think some wool, viscosa, poliester, cashmir and angora mix. I used 4 threads. 
I’ve adopted the pattern to my gauge 24stx10cm. So it turned out not to be so guick as the original. It is more spring then winter set, even if for Italian winter it is quite warm. Now I'm planning to knit another pair of similar sets with much more bulky Drops Andes (water-green 7130 and pale rose 4276). The only doubt is if 2 balls would be enough.