Because Aliens
Finished
July 6, 2013
July 19, 2013

Because Aliens

Project info
Laminaria by Elizabeth Freeman
Knitting
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
Me!
Smallish
Needles & yarn
US 7 - 4.5 mm
1 skein
Zombie Invasion
Brown
March 27, 2011
Notes

A second zombie-ish shawl! First one, of course, is here. This time we’ve got aliens…ooooooo! Or, as I prefer - The Silence, ooooooooo!

So, this shawl. It’s a funny shawl. It started off when I realised the little edge chart on Laminaria totally looked like creepy Silence faces and knew I needed to make it. But, I was not feeling the beginning star chart. So I figured “I’ll just do all blossom chart, and then Creepy Face time, woo!”. Yeah, it was really hard to figure out the numbers for that. But then! I realised that Echo Flower already did the work for me!

So technically, I knitted Echo Flower, with Laminaria’s first edging chart. I figured since it was Laminaria’s edging that I loved, I should tag it as that, but it was pretty 50/50.

And then! I ran out of yarn. So I ripped back the couple inches I had, to the base of the Creepy Face, and bound off there. Not exactly what I had in mind, but I do like how the spaces between the Creepy Faces look like the com-badges on the Enterprise. So, I’ll take that as a win.

On size/yardage used info -

I have 12 Creepy Faces per side, and the shawl weighs ~61 grams.

I have about 5 grams of yarn left over from the original 961yds/142grams

And photo explanations -
First six are obviously just shawl shots, with bonus!dog, because of course.

7th is my mom being a bit troll. She takes the pictures, and since we were doing a photoshoot/taking the dogs for a walk, I shoved the shawl in my pocket on the walk home (omg it was too warm). She thought this was too funny not to snap a picture.

And the last four photos are as near as I got to before/after blocking pictures. I was unsure if it was going to block out big enough, so I took it off the needles, and properly blocked the blossom chart part, to see if it would grow enough. It did! Yay!

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Finished
July 6, 2013
July 19, 2013
 
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  • Originally queued: July 5, 2013
  • Project created: August 8, 2013
  • Finished: August 8, 2013
  • Updated: June 29, 2020