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The shawl starts with the yellow at the center, and radiates outward through the pink, into the purple at the outside… or that was the plan. But into the purple, I realized I was going to run a little short and this posed a dilemma: run off with another couple of the batts from sales inventory, and spin up just the purple parts, or do something else? In the end, I took one large batt and spun a heathered yarn; so now when it’s all done, the outside edge will be a heather of all the discrete colours in the entire shawl, and a good example piece for how you can do a lot of interesting colour tricks with a multicoloured batt. <\/p>\n
The original skein was about 400 yards, and the second is 240. And no, you can’t see any pictures of that yet, because it looks like a giant sack on some 40″ size 3 US Addi circulars! It’s a rectangle, somewhat haphazardly throwing in assorted patterns from Sharon Miller’s Heirloom Knitting<\/a>, which happens to be the only knitting book I didn’t pack when we moved, leaving it out as a reference while traveling instead. And I haven’t unpacked any of my fiber books yet; I should put up more shelves in either my office or workshop, so I can do that. <\/p>\n Other than that, on the UFO knitting list for the moment, I have a scarf for me from commercial cashmere (Belisa cashmere laceweight yarn I picked up at Stitches West last year) — which among other things, is part of my “achieve peace with pink” goal for my near future: the yarn is variegated salmon pinks to a smoky tan. That one’s just an elaborated print o’ the wave simple one for carrying around places. The toughest part of it so far has been finding a lacy pattern that I felt looked good with the length of the colour repeats. It’s sitting by my slothing chair on a pair of old size 2 straights and I haven’t touched it in probably 2 months. <\/p>\n There’s also the triangle swatch. Urgh! The point of this was to swatch some of my handpaint lace yarns. It’s presently taking up a pair of 40″ size 2 Addis and every day I try to make myself knit a bit more. It’s really going to be a small shawl or large scarf when it’s done, with a falling leaves center that increases as you go up, forming an isosceles right triangle, around the outside of which is an in-the-round… well, in the triangle… lace border which is about to shift back to falling leaves from a more open improvised X’es sort of thing. The “urgh” comes in because for this project, I had to actually seek help from someone who remembered more trigonometry than I did, to work out the logistics of how I wanted to do increases in the round at the 45-degree angles. I know from experience that when I fudge that, I get almost a shawl collar on the shawl, which while it’s sorta comfy, I think looks crummy (vis this little shawl<\/a>, which I wear and actually like for function, but find that I never wear it for style, only as a practical thing).<\/p>\n