The yarn is Sweet Feet, which is a fingering weight yarn. Each skein contains 400m, and is a mix of 80% merino and 20% Bamboo. It is beautifully soft, and has a lovely drape, perfect for shawls and scarves. I used 4mm needles.
I made 2 small modifications to the pattern. I found the bind-off tight for blocking last time and so knitted rather than purled the bind off row ( as you do with a fcs ) which helped enormously. I also found last time that the eyelets along the top of the shawl varied in size because of doing them on a purl row, so instead of k3, yon at the beginning of every row I did k2, yon, k1 which solved the problem regarding the difference in size although I'm not sure about the appearance of the eyelet
7 comments:
oooh pretty - I agree about the eyelets. Great idea.
WOW Love it :)
That is so delicate and stunning. Good idea about the YOs. I guess you could also pick them up on the wrong side row - I did that method on some socks recently and it worked well.
Lovely! a great solution for the YOs too... I seem to remember that I wrapped my yarn twice to lengthen some of them :)
Thats beautiful. The yarn looks great to nkit with.
It's simply stunning, love the colourway too...
...will you be tempted to add to your stash at fibrefest???
What a lovely and unusual colourway - your Ishbel sets it off perfectly!
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