Category Archives: shawl

Once upon a time…

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…there was an overconfident knitter.

She decided to knit a shawl for one of her closest friends.  This overconfident knitter thought that she would get this beauty off the needles within two weeks as that was how long it took her to knit the first one using the same pattern.

The overconfident knitter said to herself’ “Lifelines?  I don’t need no stinkin’ lifelines!”

So she knit on the shawl with complete abandon not even giving a lifeline another thought.

Alas, the overconfident knitter had to rip out or rather unknit not only two rows of lace knitting three times each but three rows of lace knitting three times each.

Three rows of 267 stitches three times each. (That’s only unknitting 2,403 stitches and reknitting 2,403 stitches.)

Did the overconfident knitter learn her lesson?  Oh yeah, but it took her nine times to finally figure it out!

Moral of the story: Use the freaking lifelines!!!!

Another Kindness

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My BFF picked out this Knit Picks Chroma Twist in the Confetti colorway for a Kindness Shawl that I offered to knit for her.

The yarn arrived last week so I immediately wound it into a ball (no small feat as it soon became a huge tangled mess!) and cast on.

This is how the colors are progressing at Row 40.

I’ll switch to circular needles once the stitch count grows and won’t fit comfortably on the straight ones.

PS  The top-down-circular-yoke sweater is still in progress.  Finished the main body and picked up the sleeve stitches.  I never said I was a monogamous knitter.

Nice pattern

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Wrong yarn.

I love the leafy border on the Ka’ana shawl/wrap.  But the yarn is all wrong for this wrap.

The color is wrong…for me.  Not a fan of pastels.

The actual weight of the yarn is just too heavy.  It’s a dk weight but it’s cotton.  And cotton can be heavy.

I’ll let you know if I use it this summer on cool evenings.  If I don’t…

PS – I DID win at yarn chicken!!

I prefer deeper colors

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I’m not a fan of pastel colors.  I like deeper colors.  So why were these three 200-yard skeins of pastel yarn in my stash?

Those four little words…it was on sale.

The Ka’ana Shawl by Jennifer Weissman takes 600 yards of worsted weight yarn.  This Wool of the Woods – Capri is dk but since it is a shawl, it’s an okay substitute.  The yarn is very splitty so I have to be very careful when knitting so I get all the super fine threads that make up the strand.

 

This cotton shawl will be just the thing to wrap around my shoulders on a summer evening to ward off a bit of a chill while relaxing on the deck or porch with a glass of wine.

Nineteen rows into the leafy lace pattern.

I started on the last ball of yarn and still have fourteen more rows before three rows of garter and bind off.  Another game of yarn chicken might be afoot…