Flower Basket Shawl

Before:

After:

FO: Flower Basket Shawl, by Evelyn Clark from Interweave Knits Fall 2004

Yarn: Aracunia Nature Wool

Needles: US 9

Notes: The lace pattern was really fun. Most of the mistakes that I made came from forgetting to pass the slipped stitch in the double decrease. Checking at the end of each row saved my a lot of frustration once I figured out my lace knitting weakness.

Lesson learned: In the future I will pin my project out every so often just to check for undetected errors. I found one in my shawl while blocking it. I've fixed it, but I'd rather not have any other nastly little suprises like that again.

My big photos of the shawl didn't turn out so I'll have to post one a little later. Maybe a shawl action shot.

Comments

Anonymous said…

Really lovely! I love the subtle variations in the yarn. How many skeins did you use? This may be one I want to try!

March 27, 2006 at 12:20 PM

JustApril said…

It's GORGEOUS! Action shots! I hope you do, that'll be grrrrand. LOL

March 27, 2006 at 3:54 PM

Miri Mack said…

Hi Lori! Thanks for commenting on my blog. :) I used 2 skeins of worsted. I estimate it at about 26o yards total. I was considering using a contrasting color for the last bit as I only needed that second skein for the edging chart ~ 10 rows.

April - I only need to figure out how to capture the essence of shawl in action. ;-)

March 27, 2006 at 8:26 PM

Teyani said…

Oh Miriam... how beautiful ! Simply beautiful!! What a fabulous job you did! You rock.
(and I love the kittie-cat photo too)

March 28, 2006 at 10:45 AM

Larjmarj said…

Gorgeous! I love the nature wool colors. I have just started knitting lace as well. I like that fact that you posted an "unblocked" photo. Makes me feel a little better about the scarf that I am working on. I thought that it looked a little funky but after it's blocked it'll probably make a world of difference. Marj

April 1, 2006 at 10:32 AM

Anonymous said…

Your FBS is beautiful!

April 5, 2006 at 2:56 PM

Pattern: Ice Princess Panta

For a long time now I have been wanting for make something to match the fingerless mitts I made with Cayli's gorgeous home-grown, hand-dyed, handspun that she gifted me with the holiday season before last . I had some left over still but wasn't sure about the yardage. However, I had a vision of making a head band, as I find them cute and convenient for a gal that wears her hair up in the winter. And they hardly take any yarn. Originally I wanted to make a headband like the cabled panta I made before, but the gauge was all wrong. So I improvised something late the Saturday night. And here it is: I love the subtle blue striping and the feel is OMG soft. Cayli's yarn is truly amazing and was such a pleasure to knit up. Ice Princess Panta Yarn: Heavy worsted Handspun <50g Needles: US 8 and a cable needle or DPN Gauge: not critical, but a row gauge of 5 rows/inch with make a nice fitting panta 18 inches in circumfrence. Special Stitches: FC (front cross) = Slip 2 stitch

Golden Gloves

So let me just start out by saying that I didn't win my match at the Syracuse Golden Gloves, but I did have a good time, a good fight and learned a great deal. We left Ithaca before noon on friday. There were 11 fighters plus coaches riding up together in a van from GIAC. It was crowded, but fun. The guys and gals from my gym are good natured and easy going so sitting hip to hip was not uncomfortable at all. When we arrived at the fairgrounds in Syracuse, we were able to weigh in right away. After the numbers were recorded the organizers looked to find matches in your weight and experience class (coaches kind of RSVP their fighters). It turned out that I didn't have one which really bummed me out, but with the weigh ins over there was something really important to catch up on: Eating. We all went out to lunch and then came back to the fairgrounds. If you were matched up, you had to see the doctor. It turned out that while I was gone someone my weight had registered. So I was se

Where did the year of the sweater go?

Happy New Year to all y'all! I'm betting that most bloggers have already done some sort of review of the year by now. I've been hedging a little bit on this one. I didn't get a lot of knitting done in 2006. And much of the year was filled with strife, hurt and difficulty for me. So I am really not going go over it again. Except I want say that many of you in blogland and the knitworld have been great friends and sources of light for me. I can't thank you enough. And there have been some wonderful friends here in Ithaca as well. You know who you are. Thanks for the hugs and calls and all the moral support. Good bye, 2006! So the plan for this year: things are going to get better in 2007 (repeat to self 100 times daily for month of January). No, it's true: things are looking up. For one, I had a great interview for graduate school before leaving for Atlanta. Most likely you'll find me back in school come the Fall of 2007. Second, I should be having my first fi

Kung Fu Knitting

Search This Blog