The Bohus tam is finished! I am more pleased with this than with anything I've made, I think, as I learned stranded colourwork in the doing and it all went without a hitch.
Here it is modelled by its owner, Harriet,
who braved a cold wind for me to get the pictures.
Her comment is "nice, cosy and it looks really cool!"
Mine is "I can't believe I made this!".
Specifications: it's the Large Lace Collar Tam, the yarn is merino/angora, the kit is available from Solveig at Solsilke (look under Bohus Stickning), and it took me almost six weeks to make, but I am slow.
Some of the details are below, including (top left) the wrong side - I'm glad I wove in all the ends as I went along.
Very good indeed and my congratulations to both of you. What is next and how can I get it into Morgana's hands for another shoot?
Posted by: Dark Puss | 22 March 2009 at 04:07 PM
It's so beautiful and Harriet looks great in it. I'd be proud!
Posted by: Barbara | 22 March 2009 at 08:08 PM
You created an organic living thing. It is beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I love the profile picture with the strawberry blond hair flowing and the shell design showing so well the variegated grey, the stone wall background. Waou!
Posted by: roxane | 22 March 2009 at 08:53 PM
This is beautiful - you are so clever! And, Harriet's hair is simply gorgeous!
Posted by: tea and cake | 22 March 2009 at 10:10 PM
Do I detect a look of Anne Boleyn in my god-daughter? And the last picture looks a little like a rebellious novice about to announce to the Mother Superior (a tautology, there, surely?) that, indeed, she has no vocation for the cloister! But very beautiful, I do agree!
Posted by: Lindsay | 23 March 2009 at 12:08 AM
It looks fabulous - on the model and off. What a terrific job. No wonder you love it, too! Just shimmers.
Posted by: Sonja Poor | 23 March 2009 at 12:31 AM
Beautiful model and beautiful tam! Isn't it great when our offspring tell us that the garment we have knit for them is "cool"?
Posted by: Lisa W | 23 March 2009 at 01:36 PM
Well done, Karen! It looks great! Thanks to both of you for sharing the results.
Posted by: Deirdre | 23 March 2009 at 06:00 PM
Bravo!! So beautiful. You should be right proud indeed. And Harriet is lucky on two counts....beautiful hat, beautiful hair!!
Posted by: Pamela | 24 March 2009 at 12:36 AM
I think this is so beautiful: Harriet in the hat. You must be proud of her and you! And I am so jealous of that HAIR!!
Posted by: adele geras | 24 March 2009 at 04:24 PM
You deserve to be bursting with pride Karen, both the hat and daughter are fabulous. Harriet has the most beautiful hair, set off perfectly by the subtle shades of that hat. My gosh, I may take a picture of her hair to my hairdresser, I've been trying to achieve a colour like that for years.
Posted by: Rebecca | 25 March 2009 at 01:18 PM
WOW!!! Striking, both of them.
Posted by: Wanda | 30 March 2009 at 04:20 AM