By Wendy on February 28, 2010
I blocked my latest shawlette today. Here it is pre-blocking.
Isn’t Lucy helpful? Pre-blocking dimensions are 40″ across the top and 20″ down the middle of the center back.
Post-blocking:
After blocking is is 60″ across the top edge and 28″ down the center back.
Here’s a close-up:
That’s one skein of Madelinetosh Tosh Sock, in the Clover colorway. I [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged clover, crime scene, one skein, sensitive readers, top edge
By Wendy on February 25, 2010
Bind-off of the Chevron Shawlette will commence in five, four, three, two . . .
As soon as this baby is off the needles, I will cast on for the Chevron Stole. Conveniently, the yarn I have planned to use for the Chevron stole arrived in my Loopy Ewe order today.
I do so like it when [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged fluffy fur, fur coat, logwood, loopy ewe, miss woodhouse, one skein, skeins
By Wendy on February 24, 2010
The Printemps Shawlette pattern is complete and available for sale on Ravelry, here.
Like Miss Woodhouse, it’s a “more than a triangle shawl.” You work double the increases on the outer edges as you do on the inner edges to get this shape.
To make it a more open and airy design, the lace motif for the [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged different shape, inner edges, ravelry, shawl, skein, sock yarn, triangle shawl, wrong side
By Wendy on February 23, 2010
It’s true — I have shawlette fever!
Lucy sez:
“I worry about Momma sometimes.”
Back tomorrow with perhaps a few more words than today.
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged fever, lucy, momma
By Wendy on February 22, 2010
The red lace shawlette that I finished last week has a name: the Lady Bertram Shawlette. (I was on a Jane Austen kick there for a while).
She had her photo-shoot for her glamour photos.
The unblocked shawl measures 44” across the top and 16” down the center back. Blocked it measures 58” across and 23” down [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged glamour photos, harbinger of spring, lace pattern, lady bertram, sock yarn
