dip me in violet and roll me in glitter
Finished
December 6, 2015
March 8, 2016

dip me in violet and roll me in glitter

Project info
non troppo by Åsa Tricosa
Knitting
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
me
Needles & yarn
US 2 - 2.75 mm
1,606 yards
Posh Yarn Chloe Lace
79 yards in stash
0.97 skeins = 848.8 yards (776.1 meters), 97 grams
Red-purple
Rav destash
March 2014
Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Lace Garn
1963 yards in stash
0.44 skeins = 757.7 yards (692.8 meters), 132 grams
Red-purple
Rav destash - chemistryqueen
May 2012
Notes

Love love love love love this wrap! This is a typical Åsa Tricosa pattern with every little detail attended to, and I love the stitch pattern and want to use it on everything! The two yarns play oh-so-beautifully together. I could not be more happy with the result!

It seemed to take forever, but when you consider that I started and finished 2 big double-looped cowls, a non troppo scarf, a big shawl, and three hats (one of them with a full knitted lining) since I started this, I guess it actually went pretty quickly.

Had a little difficulty counting my stripes; got very discouraged for a time until I realized that I was counting them wrong and actually had twice as many as I thought! I blogged about it here.

I rebounded quickly once I figured out how to count, and immediately decided to make it bigger. I am generously sized, and I like a wrap that goes around me generously. I also wanted to use up the yarn. So I worked 10 extra four-row stripes for a total of 122, and 8 extra two-row stripes for a total of 22.

Used a whopping 1607 yards!

blocked to 99 x 21 inches (252 x 53 cm)

12-06-2015

I’ve been back and forth on my color choices for this one. I thought I wanted blue, but it turns out I really need the purply-pink.

12-09-2015

12 stripes down, 110 to go…

12-09-2015

16 down, 106 to go.

12-22-2015

took a little break, but I’m back at it now. 22 down, 22,000 100 to go.

01-06-2016

25 down, 97 to go. It’s starting to seem unrealistic…

02-08-2016

took a long break. 32 down, 90 to go.

02-17-2016

knitted a whole other shawl, then picked this up again. 37 down, 85 to go. This shawl may outlive me.

02-21-2016

39 down, 83 to go

02-25-2016

42 down. This is the most endless-seeming project I’ve ever knitted. I can’t believe people have made more than one of these, and relatively quickly, too. I’m not even close to halfway after all this time!

02-25-2016

omg what a relief!! I have just realized that the stripes are 4-row stripes, not 8-row stripes! I have twice as many as I thought I had!

84 down, 38 to go. phew!

02-28-2016

96!

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Lace
100% Merino
1722 yards / 300 grams

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  • Project created: December 1, 2015
  • Finished: March 8, 2016
  • Updated: December 29, 2018
  • Progress updates: 2 updates