Shetland Trader’s Aestlight shawl appealed to me as soon as I saw it. “Stash buster!” thought I.
It’s an easy garter stitch triangle, with an interesting construction. There’s a simple, repetitive lace border, and a knitted-on edging. Quite a quick knit, at fingering weight, and only one skein needed.
In fact, I liked it so much that I have completed three so far…
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Inspired by our recent snowfalls, there is a new project on the needles. It’s not going perfectly just yet, so I’ll not disclose too much in case it goes off to the frog pond never to return.
The good news is that it is simple (ish), perfectly beautiful (if I execute it correctly) and it comes from stash.
I notified the fifth of my Ten Shawls in 2010 yesterday. Such progress! You might think that I am overdoing it, I’m rushing – but…
Brandywine is a special pattern – most of the sale price is donated to MSF.
Simply the most wearable of shawls; a garter stitch body is knitted from the point upwards, maximising use of yarn, with a stocking stitch lace border and point edging added as you go. It is reminiscent of Aestlight, but the construction is very different indeed.
I made mine from a stashed skein of Smooshy.
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Flutter Scarf by Mimknits in Jaggerspun Zephyr.
This was a truly enjoyable knit. I loved everything about it. The yarn was a RAK gift and I was so pleased to be able to see and handle this yarn.
Most of the scarf was knit on ferry trips to and from Kirkwall. The pattern is a very simple 4 row repeat, easily memorised. The rhythm of the repeats, and the shortness of them, makes this one high on the “just one more” scale, and it is therefore very quickly finished. Just enough pattern to keep me alert, but simple enough to allow a social context. The ruffled ends required slightly more concentration, so I knit those at home.
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The last couple of days have been rest days, pretty much. With the Citron finished, and the new needle tips not yet here for re-knitting…
The Citron shawl iscompleted and now ready for blocking. I added two extra tiers plus a little extra length in the ruffle to balance the…