You know what’s really difficult to photograph? Black yarn, almost as difficult as it is to see properly while working with it.
But I managed to grab a couple pictures of this finished Trellis Tee by Lauren at Mother of Purl. I actually finished it a few weeks ago, but even though it was my “cooler” version of the previous one I made in acrylic yarn, it was still too hot for the second summer heatwave we’ve been having recently.
This version is made from Knit Picks Cotlin yarn in varying colors of scraps I had in my basket, hence the stripes near the top working in the brown and blue.
Unfortunately, I didn’t bother to keep any notes of how much of each color I had, so this isn’t a very helpful post in terms of yarn specifics. But what I can be helpful about is that this pattern is wonderfully written in a “recipe style,” meaning you take your measurements, make a swatch, and do a tiny bit of super easy calculator math to get your cast-on number, and then you are set.
The one modification I did (aside from the striping) was to work in the round where the pattern normally calls for seaming the sides. That was also necessitated by the fact I was working from scraps, so that I could keep track of where I needed to start adding the other colors.
I have finished a few more projects, and am slightly motivated to do those write-ups as well, so hopefully a string of finished object Fridays is going to happen over the next few weeks.
Casey Kay B 