Sometimes the muse just strikes
Mar. 3rd, 2013 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
untonugganToday I finished a shawl for my sister. I have been trying to knit something for her for ages, and have indeed finished several somethings and then deemed them "not good enough" and found them other homes. (I know, I know.)
Today's knitting is definitely "good enough" to take on any weasel. (That's not a dare, by the way. Shoo! weasels, shoo!)
Close up of a striped shawl done in the style of my earlier color affection, so stripey concentric circles intersecting at different angles is the best way to describe it? In shades of purple and white. One of the yarns, the one that is most variegated and has bits of pink and brown, is one I spun myself. (And I still have 50-60 yards to play with, woo!) For the curious, the cream/white yarn is a local yarn that is Border Leicester, and the other purple is a chunky Peruvia Quick (so Peruvian Highland Woo)
Wide shot of the shawl described above. It is wide and somewhat narrow, with a straight-ish top edge (needs to be blocked) and a curved bottom edge.
Repeat photo, I believe, but just for kicks: this is a close up of a hank of the variegated homespun yarn I used. Am thinking of making another shawl from it for my aunt.
\o/
Now to hope that my sister likes it...but if she doesn't, that's not something I can control.
I guess that was what was so great about this project...I didn't really know where it was going from start to finish. When I was spinning I kept wondering how many yards I would get, what I could knit with it, etc., and it was mainly just fun to have an excuse to look at patterns on Ravelry. I didn't really know it was going to turn into a modified color affection until I started knitting. If I got stuck on one part of the process, I slept on it, and that usually made it better. I am so, so proud of the result and my "process knitting."
Today's knitting is definitely "good enough" to take on any weasel. (That's not a dare, by the way. Shoo! weasels, shoo!)
Close up of a striped shawl done in the style of my earlier color affection, so stripey concentric circles intersecting at different angles is the best way to describe it? In shades of purple and white. One of the yarns, the one that is most variegated and has bits of pink and brown, is one I spun myself. (And I still have 50-60 yards to play with, woo!) For the curious, the cream/white yarn is a local yarn that is Border Leicester, and the other purple is a chunky Peruvia Quick (so Peruvian Highland Woo)
Wide shot of the shawl described above. It is wide and somewhat narrow, with a straight-ish top edge (needs to be blocked) and a curved bottom edge.
Repeat photo, I believe, but just for kicks: this is a close up of a hank of the variegated homespun yarn I used. Am thinking of making another shawl from it for my aunt.
\o/
Now to hope that my sister likes it...but if she doesn't, that's not something I can control.
I guess that was what was so great about this project...I didn't really know where it was going from start to finish. When I was spinning I kept wondering how many yards I would get, what I could knit with it, etc., and it was mainly just fun to have an excuse to look at patterns on Ravelry. I didn't really know it was going to turn into a modified color affection until I started knitting. If I got stuck on one part of the process, I slept on it, and that usually made it better. I am so, so proud of the result and my "process knitting."
