I’ve actually got some decent knitting done the past couple of weeks. I started and finished another Swallowtail Shawl. The first one only used about 360 yards and came out quite small. The first is a shawlette on a petite woman (~5′ tall), but not more than a kerchief on myself (nearly 6′ tall). I wanted to maximize the 440 yards in a skein of Knit Picks Shadow (their merino laceweight) and did just that.
It blocked out at ~65″ x 24″ and used just over 440 yards. I had to use a wee bit of handspun to finish the last 20 stitches of the bind off. It’s large enough to not look silly on myself.
I used a size 5 on the budding lace charts and switched to a size 7 needle for the rest. I think I would have been ok on yardage if I had tightened up my stitches on the size 7′s. They were pretty loosey-goosey in the Lily of the Valley section.
Another quick project is a wee fulled bowl made from Knit Picks Memories “sock” yarn. This is a fingering weight 100% merino space dyed (faux handpaint). You use a double strand of it with the color progression matched up between both strands. Two trips through the wash and I have a nice little wool container!
I cast on for the second shawl of 2010 early Sunday morning, and its moving right along.
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January 25th, 2010 at 7:03
The shawl is gorgeous!