I 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.( One more photo )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 k
3" 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
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vae for her advice. ^_^
