Monday, February 19, 2007

Knitting in shifts

Day Shift

Been working hard on the Syrian Shawl from VLT. I'd thought about making it larger, but decided to stick with the original body size and add some inches by putting a wider edging on it. Ms. Sowerby has some alternative edgings for a few of the designs in her book on page 183. I think I'm repeating myself here, but bear with me. The original edge looked a bit puny on the syrian in the dark dramatic Kidsilk Night I'm using. The wide point lace edging is another story. Very dramatic on this shawl. Take a look. This edging is sooo worth the extra effort involved. I love, love, love it. This is going to take a month of Sundays to do since I only knit on this thing during the daylight hours. The yarn is just too dark and fuzzy to see well by lamplight at night.
I had been having trouble with my needles not being sharp enough, but switched to Knitpicks and this helped tremendously. Then while knitting the edging on....same problem. My bamboo double-pointed needle was just not sharp enough. Solution: get out an emery file, sharpen that puppy up on both ends and put clear nail polish on it. Voila'. Works like a charm.



Night Shift

Well, I needed a night time knit, now didn't I? When in Dallas last weekend, I found some lovely Louet Kidlin Pixie at the Shabby Sheep on Boll Street. (She has lots of very cool stuff. When in the neighborhood, drop in to see. (No connection....just a very happy customer.) My Kidlin is the Colorado Spruce color which shows it's true beauty in the daylight with very subtle color nuances that you don't see at night. It is much easier to knit with at night however. I chose the Scarf with Number 20 Edging from...you guessed it.....VLT. It's a fast and easy knit so far. The Kidlin is a pleasure to work with.

I'm seriously thinking about doing something in the middle section to make the scarf a tad wider which will put it more into the shawl category. I'll either knit more rows of the middle motif or substitute something else. Jury is still out on that. Any ideas? Thoughts?





































Knit on,
Arachne

28 comments:

Tania said...

Check out Barbara Walkers treasury either 1 or 2 (can't remember which). She has some similar angular lace motifs like Scarf 20 that you may be able to use for the middle. Both of your knits look gorgeous!

Patricia W said...

Thanks for the tip. I just got BW's 2nd Treasury and Sharon Miller's Heirloom Knitting. I hope to find something in one of them that is suitable if I do decide to widen this scarf.

Annie said...

I like this dramatic lace edging,too and it does look more beautiful than the original one in VLT.

Grace said...

Beautiful work! I just finished the Scarf with number 20 edging in black kid mohair/silk for my daughter's 16th birthday. It blocked out wider than 20 inches and is definitely more a stole than a scarf. BTW, how soft is the kidlin pixie?

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Hi Grace,
I'm glad to hear that the scarf #20 blocked out wider. I was beginning to suspect that it would. I may leave the center part as written after all.
The Kidlin Pixie is very soft after washing/blocking. It seems just a tiny bit stiff while knitting, but that all goes away. I love it so much that I'm knitting a second shawl with it and have stash for a third.

Anonymous said...

I just wanted to mention in reference to your remark about your bamboo dpn not being sharp enough that you can use the other end of the knitpicks needle that the stitches are on to knit the edging back and forth. You do not need to use a separate dpn for the edging.

Most of the patterns that I have seen that call for a knitted on edging just use the same needles that you are already using. The only time I use a dpn is when I have a lot of stitches on the needle. In that case I use the dpn for a while until I have done a certain amount of the edging freeing up space on the needle and then after that I just use the other end of the regular needle.

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