Meet my 70s Lampshade shawlette.
The yarn is BMFA Medium Weight Socks that Rock from the Mill Ends sale earlier this summer. I'd originally just planned to knock out a pair of socks but when the Philosopher said he really liked it, I ripped back.
The pattern is Grashús by Larissa Brown. I did some sort of hybridization of sizes, knitting on size 5 (3.75mm) needles but used the fingering weight size for stitch count rather than sport weight size?
The top half of the pattern is garter + increases and the bottom is a very interesting technique called Double Garter that I'd never done before.
It creates a very springy but dense fabric that is really cool. And also is incredibly easy to screw up:
Example A:
Example B:
And that doesn't include the multiple times that I picked back a number of rows very painstakingly trying to figure out where I could get to okay again. After the first, third, eighteenth error I probably should have started using lifelines but I didn't. Learn from my mistakes....
Here's the beginning
The pattern is written where you start at one end, increase across until you're halfway through your wool, and then decrease. This would have worked better (a) if I hadn't been knitting this in public a few times and (b) if I'd ever bothered to acquire a kitchen scale
The problem with the former (other than causing interesting errors as seen above) is that at some point about halfway through I forgot that I was supposed to be doing increase rows and did a fairly large "straight" section. Once I realized this, I eyeballed the skein, knit a few more rows, called it "just past halfway" and, sending up a little prayer regarding the latter issue started decreasing.
Here's the end:
I got further than I expected, but certainly the ends don't quite match.
Once I hit the halfway point, the Philosopher started debating what color he wanted to overwash it with. The pink is very fuschia and the overall mix reminds us a little too much of a hotel bedspread. I think the verdict is that we're going to try adding a blue wash. That should tone the pink and green down and harmonize it a little more.
And proof that everyone's taste is different: I was working on this at a recent social event and one of the other women there absolutely loved the color blend. So it's a good thing Tina dyes great color mixes for all of us, not just what's in my preferred palette.
Here's the beginning
The pattern is written where you start at one end, increase across until you're halfway through your wool, and then decrease. This would have worked better (a) if I hadn't been knitting this in public a few times and (b) if I'd ever bothered to acquire a kitchen scale
The problem with the former (other than causing interesting errors as seen above) is that at some point about halfway through I forgot that I was supposed to be doing increase rows and did a fairly large "straight" section. Once I realized this, I eyeballed the skein, knit a few more rows, called it "just past halfway" and, sending up a little prayer regarding the latter issue started decreasing.
Here's the end:
I got further than I expected, but certainly the ends don't quite match.
Once I hit the halfway point, the Philosopher started debating what color he wanted to overwash it with. The pink is very fuschia and the overall mix reminds us a little too much of a hotel bedspread. I think the verdict is that we're going to try adding a blue wash. That should tone the pink and green down and harmonize it a little more.
And proof that everyone's taste is different: I was working on this at a recent social event and one of the other women there absolutely loved the color blend. So it's a good thing Tina dyes great color mixes for all of us, not just what's in my preferred palette.
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