Wren shawl – springtime
Bright and happy!
Began | November 1, 2010 |
Finished | May 1, 2010 |
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Edited | November 1, 2010 |
Pattern URL | Wren Shawl by 208356 |
Made for | Sale |
started out during Lost, and moved along between other things today.
After a swatch went a totally different way that I expected, I used it as a guide for this pattern. Initially swatched with Dream in Color classy from AmyToadyJoe. Then tried Cat’s Eye previously ripped out from some socks. Now SweetGeorgia… much better. Charted as I went, but tweaked heavily as i made it through…
top down sleeveless – garter at the sleeve edges. contrast color underbust band applied edging with stitches picked back up. lace from underbust down, with the contrast color at either side in intarsia. faking intarsia in the round by wrap and turn alternating with ssk for stability at the turning point. hoping to do some…
Story behind “happy home” – Tried on sweater at Happy Knits in Portland as part of the knitbot trunk show. The sample fit me perfect at that point in my weight loss (late January). Found that the sample sweater I had tried on was knit by cocoknits and set out to find the yarn she…
purchased set with yarn, beads, and pattern. The hardest part of this project was stringing the beads. But once I got moving, I finished in several days! I watched two days of Chuck DVDs separated by how many days it takes netflix to send them (tuesday, then saturday, I think). I was thinking of making…
CO 12 with Judy’s Magic Cast on. first time without looking at the instructions! increasing to 36/72. finished toe, will do 5 repeats of pattern over 35 stitches on top, stockingette on bottom of foot. Started increase for heels too late, using Cat Bordhi’s Sidestream increase. Did math to figure out how many rows the…