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Thursday, 4. May 2006
FO*2
knitting_keeps_me_sane, 13:02h
Whoa!
Watch this, two Finished objects within two days - though It took me 4 days to knit the Grey Stole :-)
I mentioned a pink/grey yarn yesterday. It was so tempting that I knit it up into a smallish scarf.
(I may take a non-blocking picture later and edit this post) EDIT - now with Better Picture(Edit number two: I donated this scarf to a Tombola June 10, 2006, and it was won by a lovely lady expressing pure joy and wrapping it around her neck immediately even though it was almost 30 degrees celsius)
I wrote up the "pattern" I used: handspunscarf (rtf, 1 KB) . Enjoy!
Furthermore, blocking finally commenced on the Grey Stole (From Hell), which can be seen unblocked here:
Blocked, it came out to 6 feet, which pleases me. I did, however, only lay it smooth and stretch a bit - mostly lengtwise. If I were to wash it again and block it aggressively with pins, it would grow both lenght and widthwise.
Recap on this project: I would *not* recommend this for a beginner, even though it uses big needles and fat yarn (DK - thats fat in lace knitting terms). the chart is hard to read, and I had to enlarge it 250% and draw some reference lines on it to be able to knit it without ripping all the time.
I am still pondering if I will fringe it - maybe, but then it would be a short, delicate fringe, not the deep knotted one in the pattern.
While I was taking pictures in the garden our Iceland Sheep-dog, Freki, came about and was very interested in what I was doing.
Because he is such a beautifull cutie, I present the "Blocked picture":
Dog With Shawl!
Watch this, two Finished objects within two days - though It took me 4 days to knit the Grey Stole :-)
I mentioned a pink/grey yarn yesterday. It was so tempting that I knit it up into a smallish scarf.
(I may take a non-blocking picture later and edit this post) EDIT - now with Better Picture(Edit number two: I donated this scarf to a Tombola June 10, 2006, and it was won by a lovely lady expressing pure joy and wrapping it around her neck immediately even though it was almost 30 degrees celsius)
I wrote up the "pattern" I used: handspunscarf (rtf, 1 KB) . Enjoy!
Furthermore, blocking finally commenced on the Grey Stole (From Hell), which can be seen unblocked here:
Blocked, it came out to 6 feet, which pleases me. I did, however, only lay it smooth and stretch a bit - mostly lengtwise. If I were to wash it again and block it aggressively with pins, it would grow both lenght and widthwise.
Recap on this project: I would *not* recommend this for a beginner, even though it uses big needles and fat yarn (DK - thats fat in lace knitting terms). the chart is hard to read, and I had to enlarge it 250% and draw some reference lines on it to be able to knit it without ripping all the time.
I am still pondering if I will fringe it - maybe, but then it would be a short, delicate fringe, not the deep knotted one in the pattern.
While I was taking pictures in the garden our Iceland Sheep-dog, Freki, came about and was very interested in what I was doing.
Because he is such a beautifull cutie, I present the "Blocked picture":
Dog With Shawl!
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