Comments | knitfish: Sunday Market Shawl

knitfish

Sunday Market Shawl

Aug 29, 2007 22:28

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knitfish August 30 2007, 19:27:19 UTC

Thanks! I love this shawl & wear it a lot!
In line at the caff at school a fellow knitter was admiring it, and I tried to give her the pattern verbally, she looked at me like I was crazy :-P I was like, seriously! It's sooooo easy! The trick is to mad block it so it gets bigger, if you wanted a huge one you could even use 3 skeins.
Much easier that the swallowtail shawl of doom :-P

~Nessa

igina August 30 2007, 21:48:50 UTC

I'm getting more curious when I see the last row before bind off. I have never tried that, and now I want to.

knitfish August 30 2007, 22:17:00 UTC

the trick is to drop the stitches you made with the YO's in the first row.

igina September 15 2007, 01:40:12 UTC

Just started making this, so I knit the yo I made in the first row until the last row then I let the stitches unravel am I right?

knitfish September 15 2007, 04:40:31 UTC

yep. Make sure you are dropping the ones you added in the first row only, otherwise you could end up with problems, if it helps you can add markers. Also if you are knitting in something other than Cash Iroha I would reccommend using a bit more yardage to make sure it blocks large enough.

~Vanessa

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searchingbuddha August 31 2007, 10:48:51 UTC

I know what I'm doing this weekend!

coach_wallets June 26 2010, 10:25:15 UTC

it is beautiful

leeble September 9 2007, 21:38:20 UTC

Cunning!

pirateonthebay September 13 2007, 04:41:23 UTC

Love this pattern! I wore mine for the first time tonight, since it was a little cool out tonight after it rained. I haven't blocked mine, though, so it was more of a shoulder shawl than a real shawl. ;) (How short was yours before blocking? ;))

I'm going to make another for my mom, too, who was just diagnosed with breast cancer -- I hope she'll find it useful during her trips to the clinic...

knitfish September 13 2007, 05:46:38 UTC

I can't remember how big it was prior to blocking. Definitly a LOT smaller. I think mine got 1/3 to 1/2 bigger in size. I used Noro Cash Iroha, so I can't vouch for the stretchyness of other types of yarn. If you find this one doesn't stretch as big as you'd like it to, you could always knit the next one and just use more yardage... like 1 or 2 more skeins. I'm glad you liked the pattern & I'd love to know how it turned out once blocked :-)

~Nessa

pirateonthebay September 13 2007, 13:20:13 UTC

Yeah, I'd have used more yardage on this one if I had had more -- LOL. ;) This was a stashbuster for me. I'm not actually sure how much yarn is in mine (except by weight, which I guess would solve the mystery if I bothered doing the math), since I used two partial balls left over from knitting a pair of cabled worsted socks.