Silvery illume

Silvery illume is a distant cousin of Isaura & Zenaura – the elegant lightness of the simple lace mesh is still in play; here paired with easy, squishy garter stitch stripes. Together they create a generous, asymmetrical triangle with stripes, textural playfulness and flair. Choose sombre or wilder colours as you please, and settle into some soothingly simple knitting.

Begin at the tip, knit mesh and garter stripes side by side until your yarn runs out or to desired size, then bind off along the upper edge.

Faery Wings from Fyberspates, and  its siblings, Curly Silk from Dibadu and DyeForYarn’s MoFluff, is a silk/mohair blend yarn that is curly and wavy in the skein and knits up to a smooth and drapey fabric.

The Tuvstarr Collection (eBook)
5 patterns released randomly  over several days (18–23 December)
2 shawls :: 2 cowls :: 1 mitt

Note: If you buy a single pattern from the collection and change your mind and wish to buy the collection, one pattern can later be applied toward the Collection and is deducted automatically.

Who is Tuvstarr?

Tuvstarr is a fairy tale princess with hair like Faery Wings. She has been beautifully painted by John Bauer, a Swedish artist. Bauer’s illustrations for the book of fairy tales, Bland Tomtar och Troll, are wonderful and evocative, and perhaps especially so, his lovingly rendered Prinessan Tuvstarr.
You can read more about this early 20th Century artist and find more illustrations here.

Silvery illume

S i z e
45 cm x 200 cm (18″ x 40″)

Y a r n
DyeForYarn MoFluff (67% silk, 23% mohair, 10% nylon, 350 m (383 yds) per 100 g); MC: 1 skeins, CC: 1 skein
Colours: Glass Frog and Black Hole

alternative yarn suggestions
Dibadu Funnies Curly Silk or Fyberspates Faery Wings

approx yarn requirements
MC 350 m (380 yds) CC 175 m (190 yds)

N e e d l e s  &  N o t i o n s
4 mm (US 6) circular needle
(if your circular is not long enough to loop: additional smaller circular for the cast on)
Stitch marker

B l o c k e d   G a u g e
18 sts x 26 rows = approx 10 cm (4″) in garter stripes

P a t t e r n  N o t e s
Begin at the tip, knit mesh and garter stripes side by side until your yarn runs out or to desired size, then bind off along the upper edge.

H E L P F U L   L I N K S
Abbreviations
Stretchy Bind Off
Tuvstarr discussion on Ravelry
Prinsessan Tuvstarr by John Bauer.

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