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untonugganI finished knitting Wingspan in four days. I'm kinda amazed. It was fun, and the primary thing I was knitting. Also, US #10 needles helped. And soooooft yarn.
Photos ahoy!
A shawl made up of overlapping purple-pink and pink triangles arranged in a circle, as though to be worn around someone's shoulders. The triangles mimic feathers on a bird.
Wingspan (described above) stretched to its full length on top of a green sofa with a blue woven picture partially shown overhead.
Apologies for the slight blur on the latter photo!
For the knitterly curious, here's how I modded the pattern from fingering weight (this will only make sense if you've looked at the pattern/recipe):
I used Malabrigo Worsted (I forget the colorways) on US #10s at a gauge of roughly 3 sts/in (or 12 sts/4 in if that's how you roll). I did not swatch ahead of time (gasp!). I cast on 60 sts for each triangle, and shifted each new triangle over by 12 sts. I didn't wrap my stitches when I turned. At the end, I did do the four rows that the pattern called for to hold the thing together, and I bound off with US #13 needles. Behold, a shawl in four days!
ETA: Also, so the row gauge wouldn't be off, for the majority of the places where you move the marker I did "sl1 k3" instead of "sl1 k2". That way I wasn't left with huuuuge triangles, and they were roughly the proportion of the original wingspan. This is up to you and your sense of your row gauge. I think the first three turns I did with the original pattern (sl1k2), and the rest I did sl1k3. I figured if it didn't work I would just knit more triangles, but it ended up that I only needed the 8 called for in the pattern. The lady in the yarn shop who'd already knit Wingspan recommended that I do something like this when I mentioned it to her.
Also thanks tovae for her advice. ^_^
Photos ahoy!
A shawl made up of overlapping purple-pink and pink triangles arranged in a circle, as though to be worn around someone's shoulders. The triangles mimic feathers on a bird.
Wingspan (described above) stretched to its full length on top of a green sofa with a blue woven picture partially shown overhead.
Apologies for the slight blur on the latter photo!
For the knitterly curious, here's how I modded the pattern from fingering weight (this will only make sense if you've looked at the pattern/recipe):
I used Malabrigo Worsted (I forget the colorways) on US #10s at a gauge of roughly 3 sts/in (or 12 sts/4 in if that's how you roll). I did not swatch ahead of time (gasp!). I cast on 60 sts for each triangle, and shifted each new triangle over by 12 sts. I didn't wrap my stitches when I turned. At the end, I did do the four rows that the pattern called for to hold the thing together, and I bound off with US #13 needles. Behold, a shawl in four days!
ETA: Also, so the row gauge wouldn't be off, for the majority of the places where you move the marker I did "sl1 k3" instead of "sl1 k2". That way I wasn't left with huuuuge triangles, and they were roughly the proportion of the original wingspan. This is up to you and your sense of your row gauge. I think the first three turns I did with the original pattern (sl1k2), and the rest I did sl1k3. I figured if it didn't work I would just knit more triangles, but it ended up that I only needed the 8 called for in the pattern. The lady in the yarn shop who'd already knit Wingspan recommended that I do something like this when I mentioned it to her.
Also thanks to
vae for her advice. ^_^
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Date: 2012-12-09 11:54 pm (UTC)I should also mention this is the second time I tried learning to knit, and my first time didn't go so well because I was using horrible needles and horrible yarn and had no community of knitters to teach me how to deal with dropped stitches...
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Date: 2012-12-08 09:42 pm (UTC)Thank youuuuuuu!
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Date: 2012-12-08 09:42 pm (UTC)P.S. Big yarn and big needles, that is the super sekkrit!
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Date: 2012-12-06 01:29 pm (UTC)I love the colours, too.
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Date: 2012-12-08 09:41 pm (UTC)Colors! Shiny!
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Date: 2012-12-08 09:39 pm (UTC)The technical terms are all abbreviations because it makes jotting down patterns easier, and as I understand it, saved early printers excess ink. So "sl1, k3" means "slip one stitch from one needle to the next without doing anything to it, then knit three stitches as usual". It's just shorthand knitter code ;). You could learn tooooooooooo (if you wanted).
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Date: 2012-12-09 04:17 am (UTC)(Time results not guaranteed, I was something of a knitting fiend...)
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