Friday 26 October 2012

FO Friday 110: Bloody Vlad Lives !

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 Many apologies for the return to rubbish photos - it is dark, grey and raining today, and the Bloody Vlad turned out to be so large it wouldn't quite fit on the table how I wanted it to.



You can see very clearly that there are no points - when the designer says 'bind off loosely', she means 'bind off like knickers without elastic'. But hey, it still looks fine, a non-knitter would never know.

 

You might be able to see the beads if you squint and use a magnifying glass  ...


Detail of the 'wing'

 The yarn - 'Mistoffeles' merino/nylon 3ply sock yarn from Black Cat Fibres was lovely to work with: soft with a very slight stretch, washed and blocked easily (although it bled a little, I forgive it, since this is a vampire shawl it seemed appropriate).

And here is my other creative work for this week, completed at Destructo Boy's Savannah Sharing Day: 

 
 


Which inexorably reminded me of this:





Hop on over to Tami's Amis - hopefully any music will be less dodgy than my selection remembered from childhood.




4 comments:

  1. Oh, that turned out splendidly! The yarn seems so squishable.

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  2. Somehow the jungle music is inappropriate for the shawl :D

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  3. Love how Vlad turned out - and Destructo Boy's artistic endeavors. :)

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    1. Errrm - that lion is my artistic endeavors :-D

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