Wicked stepmother
Finished
March 11, 2015
no date set

Wicked stepmother

Project info
Wicked by Nim Teasdale
Knitting
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
Needles & yarn
Solstice Ishtar lace
in stash
Beetle
Twisted Fiber Art Ariel Evolution
none left in stash
1 skein = 340.0 yards (310.9 meters), 70 grams
Angst
Blue-purple
Twisted Fiber Art, Inc.
Notes

By the pricking of my thumbs… ;)

The fourth character in the series, Wicked, with Snow White’s stepmother in mind. :) Starts all bright and cheery with little flowers and ligght, bright colours and gets progressively darker, more complex and twisted. :)


Used 1 small skein, 70g,
135x55cm (22x54in)

Sequence:
Chart 1 x2
Chart 2 x2
Chart 3
Chart 4
Chart 5 x3

Colour note: the darkest blue is more purple irl, and the burgundy not such a contrast against the grey that follows.

Turns out that while it’s easy to get a dress form to look demure or romantic, it’s surprisingly hard to get her to look like she’s off to enjoy some nefarious doings in the woods.. Who knew?

Cynthia is kindly knitting up the Beetle sample, and I’m using the Twisted Angst because the name is so apt.

Cake weighed 74g on my scales
Set up
Chart 2x2
Chart 3
Chart 4 (60g rem at start of chart)
Chart 5 (50g rem at start)
End of 1st rep chart 45 used /35 rem (inc 8g beads)
End 2nd rep 61/21 rem
Half way through 3rd rep, 14g rem
BO 4g rem.

The blue is so blue it’s shorting out the iPad camera!


Jan 21. Dilemma.

I seem to have accidentally charted 3 distinct patterns for this one - a crescent, a triangle and a heart. Oops. Now I can’t decide. Um. Pending. Naturally now I want to try all three.

Update 12 mar (wow, it only took me 6 weeks to decide..)

Going with a heart shape for now because I want to try out some fancy spine options. This one has an anti-spine, a single row of holes. :)

Also because the straight triangle would have needed much longer charts, and there are already 3 crescents in this collection.

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  • Project created: January 6, 2015
  • Finished: October 3, 2015
  • Updated: February 12, 2016
  • Progress updates: 3 updates