Over a year ago, I purchased this yarn to make a shawl from
Victorian Lace Today. I planned to work on it when I was on vacation in Hawaii – this was not the most recent trip, but the previous one. I started the shawl there, and about six inches in, made a really egregious mistake, which, due in part to the fuzziness of the yarn and in part to my ineptitude, I could not fix. I got discouraged and bagged the whole thing. Then I made the
Swallowtail Shawl (from different yarn) and was successful with that, and so decided to give the pink fuzzy another go. This time, I opted to make a lace triangle shawl from Evelyn Clark’s “design your own” book, called, of course,
Knitting Lace Triangles. I wanted to make one using the flower pattern, but I could not get it going without mistakes, so I started with the simpler leaf pattern. Once that was established and I could see what was happening with the lace, I was able to make the transition to the flower pattern. I wanted to make a more interesting edging and hoped to make one from Nancy Bush’s
Knitted Lace of Estonia, but the patterns all seemed to require that you cast on the correct number of stitches, knit the edging, and then sew it on. This necessitated knowing bef
ore you started, how long you should make the edging, and I had no idea. So I made the Swallowtail edging, which was knitted directly onto the shawl and therefore would automatically fit. I was quite happy with the results. Next question, where will I ever wear it?
Over a year ago, I purchased this yarn to make a shawl from Victorian Lace Today. I planned to work on it when I was on vacation in Hawaii – this was not the most recent trip, but the previous one. I started the shawl there, and about six inches in, made a really egregious mistake, which, due in part to the fuzziness of the yarn and in part to my ineptitude, I could not fix. I got discouraged and bagged the whole thing. Then I made the Swallowtail Shawl (from different yarn) and was successful with that, and so decided to give the pink fuzzy another go. This time, I opted to make a lace triangle shawl from Evelyn Clark’s “design your own” book, called, of course, Knitting Lace Triangles. I wanted to make one using the flower pattern, but I could not get it going without mistakes, so I started with the simpler leaf pattern. Once that was established and I could see what was happening with the lace, I was able to make the transition to the flower pattern. I wanted to make a more interesting edging and hoped to make one from Nancy Bush’s Knitted Lace of Estonia, but the patterns all seemed to require that you cast on the correct number of stitches, knit the edging, and then sew it on. This necessitated knowing bef
ore you started, how long you should make the edging, and I had no idea. So I made the Swallowtail edging, which was knitted directly onto the shawl and therefore would automatically fit. I was quite happy with the results. Next question, where will I ever wear it?
