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Published: 2011-08-07 17:12:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 1724; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 19
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It's been a long long time since I posted anything and I made some promises that once I was finished with this project I would post it!
I started this project the first week of July by spinning the wool into yarn singles on my Wee Peggy spinning wheel.
I purchased the wool from Creatively Dyed. It's made out of 70% superwash Merino 30% Seacell fiber. The yarn was spun into singles for a total of 611 yards out of 8.10 oz of fiber. It took me 2 weeks total to spin it all up.
The pattern is Weekend Shawl by Anne Kuo Lukito which can be found on Ravelry. It's a wonderful pattern not too complicated and can easily be knitted while doing other things such as watching Battlestar Galactica or playing Magic the Gathering. There was a few stitches I had never used before and was able to pull up some videos off of KnittingHelp to get that all sorted out. Apparently the shawl can be made in 48 hours if you are crazy or know some how to manipulate time to your advantage with the use of magic LOL
I spent a total of 2 weeks knitting this and was left with 10.5 yards to spare. This version of the shawl is the lace-weight small. Would have loved to make it bigger but didn't quite have the yardage to do so.
Will more than likely take some better photos at some point in time. This is just after drying from being blocked. For more photos of this shawl and the yarn in process you can view the photos I posted here [link] photos 6-33
*UPDATED* color is a bit more accurate now.. extremely hard to get the color correct due to the green towels I have it on.
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Comments: 32
Such a lovely piece. And the colours are wonderful! Beautiful, beautiful work.
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Beautiful work!! I'm an avid, experienced knitter and I'm quite sure I couldn't knit this in 48 hours either! The colours are just gorgeous - kudos to you for spinning your own wool.. I'm not ambitious enough for that!
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Beautiful! The colours are gorgeous, and I love the pattern.
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Thanks! It is a wonderful pattern. I'm working on a second one for my Grandma
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That looks beautiful - you can see the hours of work it would have taken.
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This is SO beautiful! I do love shawls. I just cannot make them! Wonderful job. Amazing you made this in just two weeks 
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I can't believe it either! and more so can't believe anyone could willingly force themselves to make it in TWO
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It is really intense with the variety and the amount of colours you've managed to include there! It all feels quite delicate and fragile as well, but also sturdy, though that could just be me.
Great design, and well made!
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When I first thought of spinning the yarn as simply singles I was actually a bit concerned about the yarn itself being too fragile. Not sure if you know about this but a yarn is much stronger dependent upon how many singles make up the ply of the yarn. Usually the stuff you get at the store has several plys. I've never just kept my yarn in singles so it was quite a leap of faith in hopes that the shawl would knit up and hold together properly. I love it and am so thankful I kept it that way... without it being singles there wouldn't be the neat color transitions it'd be a lot more uniform.
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Ah... no, I didn't know that. It's quite intriguing, though.
Definitely! It worked well in the end.
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WOW. gorgeous. I need to go find that pattern! (runs off to Rav to queue it)
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it's pretty easy to find it's the featured pattern
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I found it. thanks! (starts plotting and shopping for yarn)
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When you get around to making it and if you find anything the least bit confusing feel free to poke me! There's a purl WS decrease... that threw me for a loop at first
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