Mohair ideas

On 9 Aug 2006 19:59:24 -0700, "Craftkitten" spewed forth :

I made a mohair Pi shawl last year. It used many many balls of La Gran Mohair, plus odds and ends from the stash. Ended up about 7' in diameter, just the most scrumptious thing imaginable. Too bad it never gets cold enough here for me to wear it or even use it as a throw.

Knit a bucket with a strand of wool (contrasting? complementary? your choice!) then full the bucket into a nice turn-brim hat. Knit mittens, add mohair to the cuffs for extra coziness.

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A shawl, a throw, a sweater. THe very first sweater I knitted was mohair. And I recently found the pattern after all those years. Sigh!

Higs, Katherine

Mohair is very thin and very fuzzy. It sticks to itself so you can knit it on huge needles and the stitches won't move once they've been blocked. This also makes it a real nuisance to frog or tink. It makes a very fast sweater, because even when knitted on huge needles, the fuzz will reach to "cover" the openings and hold in heat. A plain stockinette sweater will look lacy and be warm. Fancy stitches don't show up well, because the fuzz covers them. Since you have a lot of mohair, how about a long coat sweater? It'll work up on big needles but will still use up quite a lot. If you have different colors, you can do stripes or make a shawl collar and deep cuffs in a different color. Since the basic yarn is really thin, you could even try doing simple stranded colorwork, but the fuzz will obscure any complex patterns; big simple patterns will show.

Some people like mohair slippers, socks, hats, scarves, mittens or mitten linings, but I think I would recommend, first, a scarf (if you haven't worked with mohair before) or a pullover sweater if you have used it before.

If you hold it together with a thicker yarn, it adds the fuzz without making much change in the gauge. Lately some people are knitting mohair collars and cuffs on otherwise plain sweaters.

=Tamar

I like using mohiar to knit simple items as mohair is very difficult to unpick if you make a mistake.

My favourites at the moment are crochet bags and garter stitch blankets.

Sarah

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