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Nupped

Not much in the way of new pictures this week because I pretty much just worked on Swallowtail, and my sock which doesn't look that different.

I decided I had enough yarn to do the nupps in the border, and since lily of the valley is my favorite flower I wanted to do it justice. So I did the nupps - 10 rows of nupps, about 20 in a row - that is a LOT of nupps.

But it wasn't that onerously hard, and I think it was worth it. These babies will look so great when it's blocked.

Speaking of babies, I have a hard time talking about knitting nupps without thinking of pacifiers... or nursing... or something like that. Heh.

The method that I ended up finding out worked for me involved a small crochet hook (I used an old Boye #3) and some loose knitting. The right-side setup for the nupp was k-yo-k-yo-k all in the same stitch, and then those 5 loops get purled together on the wrong side row. On the wrong side, when I came to the 5 loops, I moved all 5 onto my crochet hook, then I shoved them all up onto the thumbrest part of the hook and held them there while I picked up the working yarn to wrap around and pull through. This opened up the 5 loops so they were pretty uniform and easier to get through without snaggiing one of them.

All I have left on the shawl now is the edging, 16 rows worth. That will take me about a week I'm guessing, given the width of the thing now.

It isn't that long, but I think this fiber content (60% angora, and the rest is a blend of wool and silk) should stretch out nicely and not spring back too much.

I am almost to the armhole on the first Tilia sleeve, but that has been sort of abandoned as I worked my way through the nupps - it took me half an hour to do each 2-row repeat, and I didn't want to call it a day having done just one repeat, so there you have it.

Posted by Prudence at August 21, 2006 07:35 AM