Of course the Noro shawl is progressing madly, but I am at the stage of very carefully manipulating colours to get wide enough stripes, and that is definitely not a quick or portable process.
The other shawl, more dressy, made from fingering weight acrylic yarn, very soft with a little shine to it -- and sequins! -- is a still quite portable. I can't get over the fact that, even though it's very soft and a has a lovely hand, the yarn still "squeaks" when I knit with it. (Knitters will know what I mean.) It's an acrylic thing.
I'm not sure I like the Tortuga pattern as written. I have made changes, anyway. The designer chooses to divide the yarnovers (increases) between the right-side (knit) and wrong-side (purl) rows. This did not work for me. I preferred to do the standard four increases on the right-side row, and no increases on the wrong-side row. (I kept losing the yarnovers when I tried doing them on the purl row.) Once I made that change, the project proceeded quickly with no lost stitches.
Also, for any shawl with a “YO, k, YO” centre, I prefer to use two stitch markers, one on either side of the centre stitch, since I can keep better track that way. For this particular shawl with a three-stitch garter edge, I need to separate the edge with a stitch marker (which also reminds me where to do the yarnover on a right-side row).
The next shawl I try (probably with my Kauni yarn) will be the less succinctly named no fuss shade loving shawl. It's a similar design, but sets off the eyelet row a little differently.
2 comments:
And now she's knitting with sequins??!!!!! You go, Girl! :)
I love the look of Noro as a shawl, and I can't wait to see yours when you finish.
Acrylic? You're a better woman than me. I don't think that I could do it. :-)
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