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July 11, 2005
Weekend Report
A good time was had this past weekend. Tom Jones was so worth the 12 hr drive! I came back refreshed and ready for life once again. Did I knit? Sure. Last weekend I finished the last lace row of Shetland Tea Time Shawl from GOL. This weekend I completed the 6 plain rows between last lace row and edging and started my edging. Woo Hoo. 15 down 100 left to go.
I find this edging particularly fiddly. First I was confoozled about the stitches. Normally, when working from charts, a knit square is purled on the wrong side~ correct? Well faggoting is usually garter based but the chart showed purled squares on all rows. Eyeing the photo in book didn't help since the gauge is so scraggly. Just my opinion and the reason I went with a smaller needle size. I turned to the edging chart on next shawl which is clearly garter based and saw all white squares so figured the XRX folks decided to chart the stitches as they were worked from whatever direction/side they were knit. Then there was the whole issue of cutting yarn and using an auxillary CO for edging. Normally I skip the cutting yarn and work the edging whichever way works but I was determined to do it "right" after all the months put into this baby. Cutting the yarn and using the auxillary CO means that we join the edging on Odd rows and we have to slip the next shawl stitch onto dpn[or other circ edge if your me] every Even row so that it will be in position for the k2tog. Like I said fiddly. One could just use an invisible CO, without cutting yarn but by adding an auxillary yarn, and join on Even rows by knitting tog last st of edging with shawl stich. You will now be working counterclockwise around the shawl~ my usual mode. Sure you will be working the rows backwards* but big whoop dee do da day. Anyway here is the shawl edging pinned out gently to show the pattern:
Great yarny day and knitterly evening to all
* from left to right on Odd rows and right to left on Even rows.
Posted by Elka at July 11, 2005 09:53 AM
Comments
Yes, and it dawned on me that I just might get to see the Tea Shawl and the color if I visited your blog - and there she is. Goregous and I can't wait to see it when it is all done. You are sure close. The edging is great. I really, really like it.
Posted by: junieann at July 11, 2005 05:23 PM