Sorry abou the delay

Sorry about the delay. Somehow, weather turned bad, and then study kicked in and everything rotated around my studies, and not handicraft. I have not knitted for weeks.


This is the whole shawl. It was hard to photograph. It is also huge, 260 cm across the wings and 140 down the back. I have seen shawls half that size!


Semi-close-up. You can sort of see the variegation in the handspun in this picture. It is gorgous, in my opinon, and looks really good in the clover leaf pattern (I believe it is also called Rose leaf?)


Clover Pattern. The transition between my mothers yarn and mine happens in this picture - I can see it because my mothers yarn is a tad thinner, but I am pretty sure noone but me, who has had it in my hands and stared at it for hours and hours can see it.


Leaf pattern. Again, the variegation. I am amazed at this shawl because it turned out so well, even though I almost despised it at several points in its creation.


Bonus picture!

Ditlev, my first and oldest piggie, and probably the cutest I have ever met.

Have a really nice day

/Lene

Rosy Fingered Dawn

There was a knitalong for Rosy Fingered Dawn back in 2005 - inspired by the original Secret Stole - along (Which I was first to finish, weee). I got my kit from Blackberry Ridge (Dangerous website!), and promptly started to knit. And knit. Soon, it became Very Boring, somewhere in the middle of the second colour (!). Nonetheless, I have plugged on in spurts and starts - a little here, a little there, a lot last christmas, and nothing at all in 2006.

Now, however, it has been pulled back out (For who knows how long?) and I have spent yesterday and today knitting three spacer rounds between the 4th and 5th colour - it was a nightmare. I had heard that some have run out of that colour, but also some that have haft leftovers enough for the others. I knit tightly, and did not think I would have a problem. There was 1", or 2,5 cm left over! I could barely make the last stitches, and had to resort to knotting the new yarn on. Now, the body of the shawl is finished - the 5th colour is only a narrow band of 13 rows. That seemed like very very much to me when I abandoned it, but meanwhile i have finished shawls with rounds so long, that they took one hour apiece to complete. Nothing can scare me now ;-)


It IS a beautifull shawl, and as with many other projects, it has taken some time to realise that, even though I have made it, it is not crappy by default :-)
A little "fun" fact: The kit is not even mine. Not from what I know, at least! I ordered it together with a woman from Luxembourg, who then sent it to me.... And never responded to my queries of what I should transfer, and how. Never. It is not the priciest kit ever, at 46$, but somehow, I would really have liked to pay it. I dont think the lady desperately needs my money (Because then she would have taken care of getting it, right?), but it would feel better to have a clean conscience.


The handspun shawl has also grown immensely - I am at 63 (?) rows now, but have concentrated on organ playing, and knitting the Rosy Fingered Dawn. That makes 3 shawls in Progress - Christening Shawl, by Gladys Amedro, Rosy Fingered Dawn, and the Triangular Shawl. Certainly keeps me busy!

Have a really nice day
Lene

Triangular Shawl with Clover Pattern

Yep, that is the name of my current (favoured) WIP.

It is knit in Handspun yarn - a handspun with a long story behind it actually, because first it wanted to be single-ply, but my inadequate spinning skills were not up to the task - all three skeins were differently twisted, so I added a lot more twist and plied the three skeins to make two large skeins and one little one.

The shawl is made from the bottom up, and in stockinette stitch. The beginning pulls out teeth, and I did not do it as written - I omitted a lace row, but it does not look the worse for it, in my humble opinion.
I have a little over 7 oz of this yarn, but it is not enough for the whole shawl. What you can see in my picture are 50 rows out of roughly 310 (CO 624 stitches, and decrease 4 every 2nd row = roughly 312 rows), and roughly 520 stitches, decreased from 624 stitches initially CO. 28500 stitches so far, 67600 to go yet. I have 106 grams, or a bit more than half left. That means I can probably knit another 30000 stitches, leaving me with 37600 to go when I run out.
However, these calculations are a bit faulted, since the bottom pattern increases 4 st. in each pattern (going from 42 to 34 as the decreases set in) over 4 rows, and I did not want to do those calculations because, really... I dont want to seem as anal-retentive as I really am ;-)
BUT... Since this was a "humbug" wool, it was carded together from Moorit and White wool, and I knit where I can get both White and Moorit Shetland in very small quantities. My mother has two pounds of each, and I can buy a little off her as the need arises. I dont, however, think that I will produce a Humbug myself - I could buy some in the second March Weekend if I were so inclined - but I will decide upon either Moorit or White and spin enough to finish the shawl.

If 3½ ounces will bring me around 30000 stitches far, 4 ounces should bring me all the way to the end, right? Especially because the topmost patterns (Lace Holes and Clover Lace) have a steady stitch count as opposed to the leafy lace pattern in the bottom section.
When I run out, I will calculate again and see if I was correct. Remember, this is handspun yarn and it might vary in thickness, taking away some yardage along the way.

Have a really nice day

Lene