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5/1/2005 6:18:50 AM
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Libby
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Ok Ladies how many of you are as tempted by this stuff as I am? Dont be shy now! LOL
Libby
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5/1/2005 7:10:34 AM
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bets
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Um, ME! I`ve been looking around at it in different places (camera angles) and am curious about the patterns available.
B
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5/1/2005 7:48:02 AM
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suzann
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The lace cover up free pattern for Riviera has got me hooked. Not sure when it would ever get done tho :-D It just looks so fem and summer and lace.
Lace = space captured by thread or in our case yarn. The defination of lace the DH of one of the lace list members gave.
sign me
itchy fingers
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5/1/2005 9:24:25 AM
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Guest
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I`ve been sooooooooo good not ordering yarn but this one is definitely tempting. I was thinking of the one of the multi`s for the lace coverup (the blue coast and monet carlo are calling to me). What do you think? NO don`t answer that I`ve got the feeling your answer would just be enabling! Maybe I should do try my sample skein and see how it knits up.
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5/1/2005 11:04:08 AM
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Sandra D
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Suzann,
What an enchanting definition!
Bets & all,
I`ve been googling this yarn and looking in my spr/summer back magazine issues for patterns that use it. For a preview of the cover-up pattern, Skacel has it on their web site as a freebie. Winter `04` Interweave used it in the olive as a man`s tie (not exciting) and their `04` Summer issue had it as one of three yarns in a multi-layer capelet (also not interested). One of my Easy Knitting spring/summer issues had it as a jacket worked double stranded but that sort of obscured the interesting texture. I dunno, I may just have to go with buy the standard amount in a favorite color!
Sandra
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5/2/2005 6:20:46 AM
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Daryl
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Oh my I`ve been yearning for it, I want at least enough for a major project in 4 or 5 colors. I`m thinking summer cardigans, shawls, the Clapoti, something shiny to throw over summer shoulders in the cool office or a movie or restauraunt (as if we ever go the latter two). I`d even been so good for a few weeks. Daryl
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5/4/2005 10:23:07 AM
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Hello Carol,
I have just checked on Skacel`s information about Riviera. They have classified it as a worsted weight (20 st/4") yarn on recommended needle size US 4-5.
I haven`t tried knitting with it yet, but I`d like to. The colors are beautiful.
Lorill
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5/4/2005 11:12:45 AM
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I`ve been drooling over the colors so I did the fondle test and was surprized at how thin it looked for a worsted weight. With those needle sizes, it sounds more like a sport weight. Maybe that will be the safer way to calculate yardage for a project.
I still have a few days to try a swatch with the sample.
Thanks for checking.
Carol
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5/4/2005 3:28:13 PM
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LisaB
Posts 547
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I don`t know about the Riviera, Carol, but the first thing I had to learn about 100% linen was that if I tried to knit to stitches-per-row gauge, I ended up sizing down multiple gauges of needles to get gauge, and then I`d wash it, and gauge would get even tinier (across the row) while loostening up vertically. (And it`s really easy to overcompensate using tiny needles, as 100% linen yarn looks suspiciously "lace weight" if it`s, say, sport weight. Look at Loeut Euroflax.) The only way to get gauge, for me, was to go ahead and do a swatch with various needles achieving loose, kinda messy/ugly looking stitches, and one size or another would inevitably "get right" post wash, stretching vertically to achieve the proper row gauge. (Also look very nice post-wash.) With 30% linen content, maybe Riviera is similar?
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