LBD

They say every woman should own a Little Black Dress...

The dress that does for multiple occasions, and that makes you feel a million dollars. Of course, me being me, I made my own.

Photo kindly taken by my friend Katharine, who also owns the flock who grew the fleece. It's a Gotland/Black Welsh Mountain cross, and was gorgeous to work with. The beautiful black you get from Black Welsh Mountain, but softened by the Gotland genes, and with a lovely long shiny staple. I then carded some of my hand dyed silk in to it, and spun lots of yarn. 

Thought maybe not as much yarn as you'd think, essentially it's just a long jumper, and with no sleeves to knit you actually only need the same amount of yarn as a jumper. 

Sometimes everything just works in a project, and I'm sure this will rapidly become a wardrobe favourite. 

Taking the photos was something of a challenge, I don't do standing still very well, and Katharine kept making me laugh so in most of the photos I have my eye's closed, or am gurning... 



Full details, and a link to the pattern are on my Ravelry project page. 

I bloged about spinning the yarn here