Pattern & Progress

Progress is being made on the black shawl. I took it to a parent's meeting for my son's scout troop last night & got quite a bit done. I'm far enough along to be able to know the pattern without referring to the chart constantly anymore, so it worked out well for a "take to meeting" project. It does seem to show the design a lot better than the previous pattern I had chosen for this yarn.

This is the book from which I got the pattern. The rectanglar garter stitch bias one that I frogged also came from that book.

Shawl Pattern Settled

I have decided to save the Mountain Peaks pattern for another shawl at a later time. (I have a couple yet-to-be-purchased color ideas for it also.)

Tales of running out of yarn, or nearly running out of yarn on the border is what decided me, since I barely have 600 yards of the black.

Instead I picked a pattern out of a shawl book that I already own. It's in the style of the Faroe Islands, but knit top-down instead of bottom up. That way I can stop whenever I think that the yarn is running too short to finish another pattern repeat.

My first sock

I am part way through my very first sock. It's been slow going, as I'm not used to such small needles. But that's just as well, since I haven't yet decided how I'm going to do the heel.

Annie's daughter & I are about the same amount done on our very first socks, only from different directions.

In search of the right shawl pattern

Otherwise known as Adventures in Frogging.

These pictures are from what I had thought would be the perfect pattern for my next shawl. However, the design just does not show up with the dark yarn, unless it's held up to the light. I even tried going up a couple needle sizes from what was recommended on the pattern, but the design is still hard to see, even with larger YO holes.

I'm thinking that I will need a pattern with a lot more holes in it for the design to show up better with the black yarn. The ones shown in this picture will end up being frogged.

One of the patterns I'm considering is this one. But I'm not sure if my existing paypal account is still active, & she only takes paypal.

The lighter version of this shawl is a Blue Ribbon winner.

I also found a couple of finished versions linked from the pattern author's website. Those give me a good idea about how it might turn out in darker colored yarn.

Locked out

I was having problems with my Blogger account & have only recently been able to get logged back in, which is why I haven't updated in a while. Now that I can log in again, it'll take me a bit to remember what I was planning to say next. So in the mean time, here's a picture of some of the ponchos that I finished earlier this year.