Lightning Thief - Finished!

As is typical for me, once I get to a certain point in a project I focus on it until it is finished.  So last week I focused on finishing up Lightning Thief, working the rest of Chart B, and the bind off.  The bind off was a bit of a slog.  Not hard, per se, once I saw the pattern and got into the rhythm, but it still required focus, and time.

Blocking also took time (an hour), as every one of those picots had to be pinned out.  To do it I put three fingers of each hand into the loops (like a cat scratching) and pulled to stretch out the knitting, then I switched my left hand to the first three loops while I pinned with my right hand, being careful to pin into the picot.  Once they were pinned I repeated for the second three loops.  Once all the picots were pinned out I could then do the fine adjustments to get them all laying neatly, make sure my pin was solidly in the picot, and make sure things lined up neatly.

I did make one modification to the pattern, adding a bead on row 40 over the CDD so that the line of beads terminated neatly.

Pattern:  Lightning Thief by Lily Go

Yarn:  Araucanian Yarns Huasca Multy Botany Lace

 Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Lightning Thief - Part B, Chart 1 Done!

Last night I finished up the lace part of the first Part B chart (all those beads!) and this morning I finished up the four knit rows that separate the first Part B chart from the second Part B chart.  Still more beads!  But these are the larger size 6 beads, not the smaller size 8, which will be easier to work with.  I am excited about finishing this shawl, I looked at some of the finished projects on Ravelry and it is really beautiful.

Pattern:  Lightning Thief by Lily Go

Yarn:  Araucania Yarns Huasco Multy Botany Lace

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Lightning Thief - Part A Done!

Last night I finished up Part A of the Lightning Thief for the large size.  This morning I weighed my yarn and did the math to see if I could make the extra-large size (the designer conveniently included charts with row by row stitch counts for all of the sizes), but alas I do not have enough yarn to do that, so it is on to Part B.

Pattern:  Lightning Thief by Lily Go

Yarn:  Araucania Yarns Huasco Multy Botany Lace

US 5 (3.75 mm)
 

Lightning Thief - Third Chart - One Repeat Done!

Last night I finished up the first repeat of the third chart.  My yarn usage looks to be on target for the large size.  So far it has been pretty easy knitting, and the yarn is certainly a dream to work with.  I haven’t been working as much on this project because I’ve been working on my Tessellation Nation.

Pattern:  Lightning Thief by Lily Go

Yarn:  Araucania Yarns Huasco Multy Botany Lace

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Lightning Thief - Second Chart Done!

I’ve been working on this project because I can read when I’m working the wrong side rows.  It is also pretty good television knitting.  So, I have finished the second chart and am on to the third, which I will repeat at least once.  I’ll check my yarn usage after the second repeat and see if I have enough to work a third.

On another topic, my cat, Jezebel, slept most of the night on my chest, and in the early hours of the morning moved to the foot of the bed to sleep by my lower leg.  Fortunately I do not move much when I sleep, and often sleep on my back.  It was quite nice to have a purr monster sleeping on my chest.

Pattern:  Lightning Thief by Lily Go

Yarn:  Araucania Yarns Huasco Multy Botany Lace

Needle:  US 5 (3.7 5 mm)

Lightning Thief - First Chart Done!

I have finished the first chart - rows 1-28.  Lots of beads, which makes for slow knitting.  I am adding the beads before knitting the stitch instead of after knitting the stitch, as called for by the pattern because I prefer doing it that way.  On row 15, where the pattern has you place a bead after working a knit two together (k2tog), I placed the bead on the second stitch, so that when I worked the k2tog the bead is on top of the decrease.  I’ll continue to do that for the next chart, which has beads on both k2tog stitches and slip, slip, knit (ssk) stitches.  For the ssks I’ll place the bead on the first stitch before I worked the decrease, so it will end up on top of the decrease.

Pattern:  Lightning Thief by Lily Go

Yarn:  Araucania Yarns Huasco Multy Botany Lace

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Lightning Thief - Cast On!

I have lots of yarn in my stash, and lots of yarn that was bought as a project, and I thought it was about time that I started knitting them up.  Being the methodical sort, and not wanting to make decisions, I simply grabbed my first box of fingering (I have a lot of fingering weight yarn in my stash), and pulled this project yarn out.  When I was stashing my yarn on Ravelry I identified the pattern if the yarn was bought for a specific project, so it was easy to do.

I bought this yarn from Earth Faire back in 2015, for the pattern Lightning Thief  by Lily Go.  The yarn is not the original called for in the pattern, or any of the yarns listed on the pattern page.  It is Araucania Yarns Huasco Multy Botany Lace and is categorized as light fingering.  The color is Teal and I have two skeins, so I’m making the large size of the shawl.  Having finished my Wallflowers and started my Tessellation Nation, I felt I had enough mental attention to add another knitting project to my current WIPs (now at 11, down from two dozen).  Yes, I know I could have continued finishing up WIPs, but sometimes you just want to start something new.

Pattern:  Lightning Thief by Lily Go

Yarn:  Araucania Yarns Huasco Multy Botany Lace

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)