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Six Ways to Prove your Stupidity
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September 21, 2016
October 21, 2016

Six Ways to Prove your Stupidity

Project info
Shusui Shrug by Susanne Sommer
Knitting
Shrug / Bolero
me or giftbox
L
Needles & yarn
US 6 - 4.0 mm
20 stitches and 34 rows = 4 inches
in garter stitch
1,888 yards
Cone of pure wool
Sport (12 wpi)
3.4 skeins = 1189.9 yards (1088.0 meters), 340 grams
Natural/Undyed
Ste. Marie aux Mines
September 15, 2016
Garnstudio DROPS Delight
3 skeins = 524.0 yards (479.1 meters), 150 grams
Olive Rust Plum
Lanade
2013
Garnstudio DROPS Delight
1 skein = 174.7 yards (159.7 meters), 50 grams
15 Turk Burg
Lanade
2013
Notes

I practiced stupidity at its best.
Three times I produced a horrible mess. Nothing seemed to look like in the pictures. I doubted about my intellect to be able to learn this cast-on and set up the pattern.
Then I knitted the instructions word for word and - tadaaaah - success. Now I was not content with the color impression and changed main color and contrasting color.
OK: I don’t have enough of the main color, and I don’t want to buy new skeins. It’s stash-busting-time.
My decision was to simply take another DROPS Delight yarn, when the main color has finished.

10.10.2016

Next I didn’t like the way of casting on in the pattern and did it my way by Emily Ocker’s cast-on.
In one of the pictures you may see how smart it is.
I finished legth when I could estimate the rest of the white yarn. After having completed the I-cord the remaining yarn had 3grms which was barely sufficient for another row.

The fabric is very warm and dense because of the pure wool which is barely plyed. So it didn’t lengthen after machine washing with 30° Celsius and dried without blocking. If I wanted to give it more length I would moisten the edge and block it.

Our small Persian, a mishap in breeding, found nearly starved in the street, likes the shrug very much and loves being carried around in it.

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Finished
September 21, 2016
October 21, 2016
 
About this pattern
Shusui Shrug
by Susanne Sommer
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DROPS Delight
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Fingering
75% Wool, 25% Nylon
191 yards / 50 grams

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  • Project created: October 10, 2016
  • Updated: October 23, 2016
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