October 26, 2009
Ice Fantasia
If you had never met Anne Hanson in person, and were guessing what she must be like based on having knit shawls she's designed, you'd be forgiven for thinking she must be six feet tall. Ice Fantasia is my second Anne shawl, and it's even more gigantic than Bee Fields was.
The wingspan on this lovely thing, after blocking, has got to be 8 or 9 feet, as the points hang nearly to the ground when it is draped across my shoulders.
It is BIG. And gorgeous.
The yarn is Knitpicks Gloss lace, in "sterling", and I used 3 full skeins plus a small part of the fourth (I ran out of the third skein a few inches into the edging). The knitting took from July 5th to Sept 28th and then it took me nearly the whole month of October to find time to block it.
I was playing with my camera taking some macro pictures of it.
PS Anne is NOT six feet tall.
Posted by Prudence at October 26, 2009 08:12 AMBeautiful! Looks like another blue ribbon winner.
Posted by: Vicki on October 26, 2009 02:02 PMIt's gorgeous!!! And I want your tshirt. ;o)
Posted by: elizabeth on October 26, 2009 05:22 PMWowza, what a beautiful piece of knitting! I love the macro photography.
Posted by: Melanie on October 28, 2009 04:30 PMlove the shawl I have looked at the design and it is on my to do list nice to know how big it became
Posted by: elizabeth S on October 30, 2009 02:06 AMWow!
Posted by: Linda on October 30, 2009 11:44 AMThe shawl is beautiful, made the more so by your exquisite knitting. Wow. Words fail.
Posted by: Jan on November 1, 2009 09:44 PMWow - this is gorgeous. You need to be sure to get that one out to be seen! :-)
Posted by: Sam on November 2, 2009 09:58 AM