Reading in Bed Shrug

Pattern: IK Spring 2007

Needles: Clover #4/5/6 circular needles

Yarn: Soft Feather Summer Cotton

This pattern comes from IK Spring 2007, which is an easy to knit project. Everything followed the pattern book, and I made a little change to the edges. The shrug will be a gift to my pregnant sister and I am afraid that she'd hesitate to wear it because this is not a jacket or a bolero, but a SHRUG, which is not familar for her. Therefore, I added the edge and made it a wave like, so when she wears it on, it'll looks more like a bolero. The pattern of the edge comes from the book of "Knitting beyond the Edge" and which took me almore one ball of yarn to knit!

Shetland Shawl

Originally posted at my yahoo blog on Dec. 23, 2006.

Having done the beautiful swallowtail shawl, shetland is such an easy task for me~ huh! The two patterns were both designed by Evelyn Clark, with same cast on method.

I've been falling into lace shawl since Autumn, and all my shawls are given as gifts to my friends and to my family.

I love fingering yarn, very much! But fingering yarn is not good for knitting a sweater, but is perfect for lace projects. I always pick up needles with two size bigger than suggested so the lace pattern would be more obvious, and off course, the knitting process would speed up a bit.

Pattern: Wrap Style by Pam Allen
Yarn: Sipan (50%alpaca 50%wool)
Needles: Clover #6 circular needles
Size: after blocking: 142cm/65cm

The amount of yarn used has confused me a lot. From the book, it said 500 meters yarn used for a 134 cm shawl, with 8 time repeats on body pattern. The yarn I bought from a local yarn store is a discount yarn, no length was indidcated on the label, but, from my experience on using the same yarn knitting Ene's Scarf, I know the yarn is pretty long enough. However, when I was done the body pattern, it took me less than a ball of yarn, off course the size of the shawl is very tiny! If I follow the pattern repeat, my size of shetland shawl will be like a hankerchief!



Therefore, I made 12 repeats for the body instead and it took me two and half balls to knit the whole thing.

The size is very satifying. My aunty said the pattern looks like bats flying around, and Judy said they are butterflies. I am happy that I chose the white color to knit, because it gives a purity touch to the shawl.

Pattern before blocking looks like...hedgehogs to me...

Ene's Scarf

The only reason that made me buying "Scarf Style" is the beautiful shell pattern of Misty Garden, and suprisingly, I found this elegant project in the book!

The elegant style it generates from the way it wears on the shoulder is really apptemting to me...though by the time I decided to knit this scarf, I was almost a new comer to lace shawl.

Pattern: Scarf Style by Pam Allen
Needles: Clover #6 circular needles and a lot of stitch markers!
Yarn: Sipan (2 1/2 balls) brick color
Size: more than 160 cm width. Pretty warm for winter time.

The cast on is a scary process! Can you imagine to knit patterns on 375 stitches without a mistake?! I had been trying three times to get the right patterns coming out and after the trouble cast on, everything went so well indeed!



This is how the pattern looks like while blocking. Actually this scarf is not a difficult one to knit, too, except the cast on part. And the scarf was already taken with me to Korea as a gift to the mother in law of a friend of mine. My friend told me her ML loves the scarf very much, and the color I chose is what she exactly likes. What a good coincident! :)