For such a long time I have admired the very talented knitters who churn out shawl after beautiful shawl. I have wanted to join in, but have always been a little scared. All that lace. Then it dawned on me that I have been knitting lace for ages now, just in a different form - socks. This realisation led me to trawl through Ravelry and my yarn stash, and I came up with this:
My first shawl!!
Pattern: Traveling Woman by Liz Abinante
Yarn: Merino Sock by Knitabulous in Ruby Slippers
Needles: 4.5mm
I really love it. It is just the right size to wear as a scarf and the colour is just gorgeous. I can see me getting around with this a lot this winter.
I really have no idea about blocking, but I just soaked it in some woolwash and stretched it out onto some of those foam blocks for kids and pinned it out. Seems to work!!
I did run into some trouble when blocking the bind off edge. I think it is bound off too tightly - it doesn't seem to want to stretch all the way out. I need to investigate some different techniques. Just not for this one, I cannot be bothered to undo it and try again.
Oh and the foam blocks, got them for a steal at the crappy craft store that starts with L.
2 comments:
Good on you for trying something that you thought would be a challenge and succeeding in completing it in such a wonderful fashion. Love the colour :-)
fantastic! I've been meaning to do that shawl for a while now. I hear casting off with a needle size several sizes bigger than what you used can help.
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