Showing posts with label Teaberry Shawl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teaberry Shawl. Show all posts

Saturday, October 8, 2011

The Phoenix and the Carpet - Clue 4

Finished Clue 4 this morning.  This shawl is knitting up so quickly, and I just love knitting it.  It is such a relaxing knit without being boring.  The yarn is lovely to work with and who wouldn't be cheered up by the color.  I am almost half way done.

I realized that I haven't posted beauty shots of the Teaberry shawl, so without further ado...
Although both pictures were taken in natural light without flash, the color in the bottom picture is actually closer to reality.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Teaberry Shawl

Well, the nameless shawl has a name and is finished.  I named it Teaberry because the color of the yarn reminded me of the color of the Teaberry gum label, and I really liked Teaberry gum.  I used 110 grams of my 116 gram skein, leaving just 23.5 yards left.  While I was working on the third section of the lace pattern I contemplated doing three repeats of the motif, which I could have done, if I left off the last couple of rows, which don't have any lace, but I wasn't sure how the shawl would look.  Would it have a nice edge?  Or would it just look unfinished?  I had a spreadsheet that I was using to keep track of my yarn usage and how many stitches I had knit.  Yes, I actually calculated how many stitches I should be able to get out of my 450 yards.  In the end I just got tired of knitting the lace pattern after that first repeat in the third section, and decided to finish with a knit on border.  I decided to use the border from the Diadem Shawl by Ruth Greenwald.  Conveniently the number of rows in the border pattern fit perfectly into the number of stitches that I had after finishing the body pattern.