Unblocked, the Miss Woodhouse Shawl was 50″ across the top, 16″ down the center back.
Blocked she is 66″ across the top, 25″ down the center back.
I used a size 6 (4mm) needle and one skein of MadelineTosh Tosh Sock in the “Oak B” colorway with 24 grams left over.
Expect a pattern presently.
Lucy is beside herself with excitement.
I’m fairly close to the finish of my current shawlette and I gotta tell you — the suspense is killing me.
Because I am far too lazy and impatient to do anything like actually swatch out the lace before starting work on it, I’ve been designing it on the fly. In fact, the last two charts of the pattern underwent a significant overhaul after I worked a couple of rows and just wasn’t feeling the love.
This is a more-than-a-triangle shawlette and I’m still planning to keep the yarn requirements down to one skein of sock yarn, so it will be wider but not as deep as the previous two I just completed.
I love the yarn — MadelineTosh Tosh Sock in the “Oak B” colorway. It may look brown in photos, but in real life it’s sort of a browny-olive-greeny mix. Very nice!
Lucy sez:
“It is not as pretty as my colorway!
The pattern for the Seaside Shawlette is now available for sale on Ravelry, here.
This shawlette can be knit from one 100-gram skein of sock yarn and when blocked measures approximately 56” across the top (wingspan) and 25” down the center back.
This pattern is perfect for a beginner knitter who wants to knit lace. The pattern is written in great detail and spells out everything you need to know. The lace is charted in 4 relatively simple charts that are easy to follow.
It is knit from fingering rather than laceweight yarn, which is much easier for a lace newbie to execute. The stitches used are knit and purl, and a few simple lace techniques – yarnover, knit 2 together, and ssk, and sl1 k2tog, psso (which are explained in the pattern).
And now I’m working on another shawlette, this one yet to be named.
The yarn is Madelinetosh Tosh Sock in the “Oak B” colorway, on a U.S. size 6 needle.
Lucy is working on her nap technique.
I owe you all a big thank you. Why? Because this morning I did this:
You can clicky-clicky to make bigger. But if you don’t wanna, I’ll tell you what it is. It is my donation of 50% of my profits from my last two weeks of Ravelry pattern sales to Doctors Without Borders in the amount of $1,255.00. Thank you to each and every one of you who bought one or more of my patterns! Woo-hoo!
It hurts to sit at the ‘puter (whine, whine, whine) so I’ll just quickly show you what I’m knitting:
And Lucy is just lounging around like the princess she is.
Thanks again!!
We had an unexpected snow day yesterday. The weather forecast had said the majority of bad weather would be south of us and we’d just get a bit of snow. Well, it snowed all day yesterday non-stop so it was a nice little stay-in snow day.
I started a new project, but you don’t get to see it yet. Friday night I finished my shawlette-in-progress. Here it is, fresh off the needles:
Lucy’s head included for scale. It is about the same size as the Argus shawl unblocked — 40″ across the top edge and 20″ down the center back.
After popping some percocet, I felt up to blocking it. Behold the shawlette all pinned out!
Blocked it is 56″ across the top edge and 25″ down the center back. Here it is, released from its bondage:
A close-up:
Another close-up:
I’m calling it “Seaside Shawlette.” The bottom border is supposed to remind you of waves and the body pattern could be shells on the beach. Or something. I knit it from one skein of Sanguine Gryphon Eidos sock yarn on a U.S., size 6 needle. The skein weighed 118 grams and when I was done, I had 16 grams leftover. Each skein had around 400 yards, so I’m estimating that this shawl will take 400 yards. If my math is correct, I used about 350 yards for mine.
Anyhow the pattern will be available soon.
Check It Out!
Check out Threadknits — it’s an online knitting and crocheting contest. You could win some very cool prizes by entering your creations. I was asked to be one of the judges, so I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with! Contest ends March 1, so you’ve got some time to come up with something fabulous.
Lucy sez:
“Speaking of fabulous . . . I heart naps!”
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