See Knittiot Knit. Knit Knittiot! Knit!
Okay, so lest you think I do nothing but geek out all day, with nary a knit to show for it, I bring you the Whirlwind Fiber Update straight to you from the Knittiot.
Since receiving the infamous Fiddlesticks Triple Mohair Shawl Kit, I have been working away on it. Working away completely off gauge, I might add. And ending up with something that Mr. Knittiot suggested I could give to a giant if I ever met one. Not a bad idea. Still, though it didn’t quite turn out as planned. It still turned out and I have decided that it is very dramatic indeed darlings, and I ought to now go teach theater to high school students.
Truth be told, I think that I realized pretty early on that I was off gauge (Gauge swatch? Who knits a gauge swatch for a shawl?). The finished edge along the top is supposed to be 84ΓΆβ?¬Β?. Yesterday, Erin and I measured it, and it is close to 120″. Still, despite its short– er, rather, long-comings, it is scrumptious. Just check out these colors. Very Purpley.
In other knitting news, I have purchased the awe-inspiring Rogue pattern. And despite a little trouble with my brain and a chronic condition of overthinking (which resulted in having to rip back quite a few rows more than once), I am making some nice progress on both the cables and the pocket. Though there was a slight hiccup with the pocket as well, which can be entirely attributed to confusion — a side effect of the afore mentioned disease (Chronic Overthinking Disease — also called COD. Yes, like the fish). These pictures make it look like I am knitting a prison rogue in dreary gray. The color is called “Lavender Cliffs” (Which for some reason makes me think of the movie version of Wuthering Heights with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon who uttered the words, “Heathcliff, fill my arms with heather!” and which I feel a need to repeat on a regular basis).
Thanks to a well done tutorial on the importance of prepping your rovings before you sit down to spin, I have a renewed zeal to finish these:
They are the last of the rovings that I picked up last year at Rhinebeck, and I want to get done with them so I can move on to something else.
March 22nd, 2005 at 10:30 am
I can attest that Rogue is much purplier (is that a word?) than the pictures suggest! And it is looking lovely my dear! Yay for your first sweater!!!
March 22nd, 2005 at 12:15 pm
It’s wonderful to see you posting more often again, and I LOVE the shawl - even if it IS enormous. It’s just all the more cuddly that way!
Kim
March 22nd, 2005 at 1:57 pm
The shawl will be nice next winter. After all, we’ll be able to invite our quests to cuddle under it on the couch with us. *kniw*
March 22nd, 2005 at 5:13 pm
Thank you for linking to that Fiddlesticks pattern. I have been looking for a shawl for my go at lace and wow…it’s *exactly* what I had in mind. (The intended shawl-ee is my sister, who teaches high school English in coastal Maine, so the Heavily Draped look is both practical and appropriately evocative.)
I think it’s beautiful. Very inspiring. And if it’s built for two, well…happily, you have Mr. Knittiot to share it with you.