This has been my easy project to work on while reading or while in meetings (especially good for that!), so I have been making fairly rapid progress. The pattern has you work 5 sections, repeat section 5 a total of four times and then start decreasing stitches. When I got to the end of section 4 I weighed my skein. I had 61.5 grams left, when I finished section 5 I had 41.6 grams left. If you do the math you can see that I would be able to work three of those section 5 repeats with my first skein, so I decided to work another increase section. At the end of section 6 I had 15.9 grams, which was a few grams more than I needed to work another half of section 6. When I reached the end of the first skein I joined the second skein and continued on, finishing the second repeat of section 6. I am about halfway through the third repeat of section 6 and then I will start working the sections with the decreases. I should also add that I am not using the recommended needle size, which is a US 9. I just don’t like working on a needle that large, especially with a fingering weight yarn, so I went down to a US 7. I like the fabric that I’m getting. I get very annoyed at the thinking that to get more drape you just use a larger needle. If you want a fabric that drapes, use a yarn that provides that characteristic. Knitting on larger needles just gets you loose stitches that won’t hold their shape.
Pattern: Fan Shawl
Yarn: Hand Painted Knitting Yarns Fingering Weight Superwash Fine Merino
Needle: US 7 (4.5 mm)
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