Color in Shawls
I’m currently totally in love with circular pi shawls, knit with multiple colors.
Love knitting them, love looking at them, love designing them.
love, love, love.
One of the best parts is how you can take two skeins that (on their own) wouldn’t make very sizable shawls, and knit a huge shawl.
Anwar is knit out of two skeins of Malabrigo lace, which has good (not astounding) yardage, but the finished shawl is 36 inches (91.5 centimeters) in diameter.
Mayur is just two skeins of sock yarn (something I think we all have in our closets or under our beds.)
Eirwen on the other hand is knit with one skein of Tosh Lace and one skein of Sweet Georgia Lace and can put most horse blankets to shame. (You can always stop knitting at an earlier point in the pattern, if horse blanket isn’t your style.)
The other best part about adding color to your shawls is it looks waaaaaaay more complicated than it actually is.
You could do stripes. Or blocks of color.
You could mix blocks of color and stripes. Block of color A, stripes of colors A and B, block of color B, like Anwar.
Or mix them more randomly like in Eirwen.
Or work an intricate striping sequence like the ombre pattern in Mayur.
And I might have started another color work shawl last night……. at least if I’ve got a problems it’s a very pretty problem.
spin, spin, spin, wheeeeeeeeee!
I’m always working on some project or another, and most weeks I talk about what I’m working on Wednesdays as part of Tami’s WIP Wednesday project. You can see past WIP Wednesdays … right this way.
I finished up the shawl a couple days ago. Still needs the ends woven in, and blocking, but the knitting is done.
And it still kinda looks like a sea anemone.
But instead of starting another knitting project I picked up an old spinning project.
It’s a loop batt bullseye bump, with merino, corriedale, and angelina in it. It moves from the navy blue on the bottom right, to the lavender, to the marron-ish, then to a blue-grey (you can see a bit peeking out of the center of the ball of fiber.)
Though the giant ball of fiber isn’t super portable, so I’ll probably start a new shawl soon.
If you’d like more WIP Wednesday posts, from other bloggers, visit Tami’s blog.
Lapidarius
Lapidarius is now available for purchase as a download, for $8.00 either on Ravelry, or directly through the blog …buy now
Lapidary– a person who works with precious stone. Also, of/relating to gemstones. From the Latin lapidarius. This design came out of playing with diamonds. Playing with the way they fit together, the way you can build larger diamonds out of smaller diamonds, and the way you can carve smaller diamonds out of larger ones.
Lapidarius is a rectangular shawl with a cast on edge at one end, a bind off edge at the other and 12 repeats of the 48 row repeat in between.
Yarn: 750 yards (686 meters), lace weight
Shown in: The Verdant Gryphon, “Mithril”; 750 yards (686 meters)/skein, 1skein of “Interior”
Needles: US size 2.5 (3.00 mm) 32 inch (80 cm) circular or size needed to obtain gauge
Notions: tapestry needle, US 3 (3.25 mm) or US 4 (3.5 mm) needles for cast on edges (optional)
Gauge: 28 sts/4 inches; 38 rows/4 inches (20 sts/10 cm; 30 rows/10 cm) in washed and blocked stockinette
Blocked Dimensions: 10 inches (25.5 cm) wide x 60 inches (152.5 cm) long, blocked
Skills Used: cable cast on, knitting and purling, k2tog, ssk, k3tog, k3togtbl, yo, weaving in ends, blocking lace
