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presenting. . .
March 14, 2010
The Lime Rickey shawl, finally blocked. Ms Bones was unavailable for modeling this weekend, so her colleague Mister Bones kindly stood in. The shawl looks better on him anyway, and he’s got fewer screws and hardware poking out from his shoulders to catch on things. Ms Bones nearly tore a hole in the last shawl before I even got a chance to wear it. What’s that? Did I really shamelessly use my students’ unfinished drawings as a backdrop for a knitwear photo shoot? WHY YES, I DID.
The yarn: handspun, a gift from Stacie Dolin, spun by her from Hello Yarn fibre. To see what the yarn looked like in the skein click here.
The pattern: Citron from Knitty. The contrast between the stockinette and the ruched sections of this design were somewhat lost in the texture of the yarn, but that’s okay given the lovely result. You may recall the first shawl attempt with this yarn, which was a disastrous pairing that would have helped me move closer to my goal of becoming the weird old lady down the street, because it was shaping up to be ugly as fuck and dumpy to boot (not the pattern! just that pattern in THIS yarn).
The only modification was to add an extra repeat in order to use up every last bit of the yarn. It was nail-bitingly close right down to the finish, when the yarn ran out 2/3 of the way through the tortuously long bindoff row and had to be ripped back a row. So close.
The sweet little dollar signs button holding it all together here is from the totally fabulous Kate Bingaman-Burt.
Ravelry link for the project: right here, baby.
Posted by jodi on March 14, 2010 at 10.38pm
Categories: it's only sticks and string
Comments on "presenting. . ."
It’s lovely, I love the colourway but then anything green is my thing! I was wondering what it would look like with an extra repeat as I have 650y of some lovely hemp laceweight that I was thinking of using for this pattern in the future. Now I know it looks good I can add it to my long list, but I need to buy a new ballwinder first because no way am I winding it by hand! Great job!
Posted by Anna on March 15, 2010 at 4.31am :: link
Perfect pairing of yarn and pattern IMHO.
Posted by AmyP on March 15, 2010 at 4.37pm :: link