Saturday, January 26, 2008

An Updated Blast from the Past

A couple of years ago, I posted a pattern for a simple shrug. The pattern was from a Bernat leaflet, no longer available, as far as I know. To jog your memory, here's what it looks like...

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The pattern is on my free pattern site. However, I'm not rehashing this pattern for my own benefit. I was approached by another knitter on Ravelry, asking if she could adapt the pattern to machine knitting. I gave her permission to do so, with the proviso that I could publish her notes. After she had made the machine knit version, she emailed me the directions.

It took a while, Nicola, but the pattern is up, finally. My thanks to Nicola, who blogs (with friends) at Four Friends and a Blog.

On another matter, Robbyn tagged me, on her blog, with a "You Make My Day" award; I'm afraid it may take me a bit of time finding another 10 bloggers who haven't already been tagged, Robbyn. That's a lot of work! I appreciate the honour, and I'll have to go through my blogroll this weekend. :)

As well, I have an update on the Pi Shawl. The edging is progressing nicely at the moment. I have about 144 stitches (of 576) nibbled up as of this morning. I finally found the perfect pattern for the edging, in, of course, one of Barbara Walker's treasuries (#2). I charted it, swatched it, made sure it worked and then cast on for it. It's not an easy pattern to memorize, but with just a 12 row repeat, it's working up fairly quickly. It's interesting how the yarn (and your project) will let you know whether a stitch pattern is right or not. At least, that's how it feels; looking back on the other stitch patterns I had tried, I know they just wouldn't have been right for this shawl.

Now, I'm really looking forward to having it completly off the needles, washed and blocked. I can't wait to see how this shawl turns out!

4 comments:

  1. Thanks for the mention, Ev. Happy knitting!

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  2. Wat leuk om zo jou even te zien!! En wat leuk zo'n mooi patroon.Ik ga hem zeker een keer breien!

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  3. My pleasure Ev :) Don't worry about passing it on, no one else is either. I hadn't realized knitting blogdom was so saturated with this one :)

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  4. Ev: Just linked to your blog and looked at the gorgeousness [even without blocking] that is your current round lace project...does it have a name yet? I was reading very fast and didn't see one. Is this your own creation?

    Should I admit that my own humble SOTSii Yahoo KAL project is in acrylic-gasp, splutter... LOL Actually, experiment or not, I am well pleased with the results. It looks crisp and the lace is not completely unintelligible, it still looks lacy. My knitting group is by turns aghast, amused or interested!

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