I'm upset just thinking about the shawl so I'll show you the throw first.
It's a Colinette kit, Mondrian's Treehouse in colour scheme Tableau, knitted on 6.5mm Denises using 6 hanks of each of Giotto colours Lichen 76,Caramel 148 and Cherry 122. In fact the Caramel was a bit pinkier than I wanted so I alternated this with some Mushroom from my ample stash.
It was fairly quick to knit but it took ages to get round to sewing in the thousands of ends.
It's destined for a wall in our French house...not sure which one but it'll be a long wait if I wait until it's in situ.
And here modelled by GS5
This is Harry - the current youngest of my six grandchildren. And I'm expecting three more this year!!!
Oh yes,
Rona Lace Shawl.
I'm using Violet Green's lace weight Cashmere/Silk again, this time it's colour Emerald and it really does have a jewel-like shine and of course the soft handle from the cashmere.
This is the new beginning.....
Last week I was making excellent progress. On Saturday I told
Clarabelle ( who by the way is having a Super Shawl Raffle) that I had done a third of it and over the weekend I made very speedy progress. For some bizarre reason it didn't occur to me to wonder why my yarn seemed to be lasting so long - I expected I would use three skeins to make this shawl so why didn't alarm bells ring when I was still on the first ball and already three quarters finished??
How could I have been so stupid????
In my hurry to get going I managed to omit one of the initial increase rounds so that the whole of my shawl was based on six initial pattern repeats per round and not the twelve needed. So for the rest of the shawl my circumference had half the required number of stitches. So it could never be flat. Only a sort of large pudding basin thingy. Why ever didn't I notice??? 180 stitches instead of 360!!! A bit of a difference....
I was too upset to take a photo and just undid it very quickly. Of course, progress is half the speed of before and I'm itching to get started on The Orkney Pi but I can't start that yet.
It's Violet Green's Silk/Cashmere in colour Emerald and the pattern is Rona Lace Shawl by Anna Marie Jenson from Knitpicks
Those edges will have the points pulled out when it's blocked.
You see although I thought I'd been very clever when I worked out how much yarn I'd need for the lace cast-off I wasn't quite clever enough. I cast off over 900 stitches but ran out of yarn with another 100 to go. I could have undone the cast off and part of the previous round but undoing so much gives so much opportunity to drop stitches so I decided that wasn't an option and I would have to buy some more - albeit a different dye batch.
