Just wanted to add why I love this shawl so much. Thanks to it’s shape it stays put, it covers all the important parts and it looks great on me. The yarn doesn’t felt and keeps me snuggly warm and comfy.

Pattern Rating: The instructions are very clear. The instruction for M1 differs from the instruction on Knittinghelp.com
For perfect fit, it would be wise make a swatch to work out how many stitches the shoulder parts should have. A rough sketch of the shaping would be helpful, to guesstimate how the shawl will fit and whether one needs change the number of stitches for the various parts.

Modification I wish I made: Row 7 (right front) tells you to decrease the last three stitches and then to bind off the remaining 2 stitches. Which gives an ugly tip of just one stitch. Too bad that I didn’t thought of skipping row 7 of the right front and bind off directly.

Modifications I made: Increased length by 10 stitches.

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May 6th, 2011

CO and knitted part of the left front with 5,5mm needles. Fabric is way to dense for my liking, there’s no drape to it.
Will change to 6mm needles and see how the fabric turns out.

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Kept knitting with the 5,5mm needles, some kind of drape begins to show.

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Rrrribbed! Changed to NS 6mm.

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Should have used the chance to read the whole pattern and the stitch legend again, before starting to reknit. But no, I read M1 and checked out Knittinghelp.com, which has a different definition of M1 then the pattern designer has.

Doesn’t matter, I’m in the middle of the first shoulder, my M1 looks nice and doesn’t disturb the pattern.

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May 8, 2011

I’m the Master of Ribbing! Ribbed back, after I left my knitting and couldn’t remember which row to work next.

Figured I might as well start over, use the right kind of increase and work some more front rows for a longer back. Which also means, that at one point I have to order two extra skeins.

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May 9, 2011

The left front is done, hurray! Finished with 52 stitches. Will put in lifeline now and then continue with 18 increases for the left shoulder.

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Will hopefully finish the left shoulder today, 13 pattern repeats to go!
Will have to order one additional skein of this homespun Bergschaf yarn.

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May 11, 2011

Nice. Why haven’t I noticed that I confused the month earlier?
2 pattern repeats of the back are worked. One pattern repeat takes 10g of yarn, one front and shoulder roughly 145grams, meaning, that I have to order new skeins.
If I really want to make fingerless mittens for this, then I need a third skein.

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May 15, 2011

Picked up Mister Rochester today and knitted 2 pattern repeats for the back. Tried to make a good picture of it, but my cam can’t pick up the right color. The yarn is a dark brown, depending on the light it looks nearly black or shimmers in a very rich brown.
There are some stray fibres from white sheep in and the occasional piece of hay, but I leave them in. Lends the shawl some authenticy.

For understanding the shaping of the shawl I put in stitchmarkers to mark the beginning of a new part, it’s very interesting to see what short rows can do!

Listening to Pride and Prejudice from Gutenberg.org while knitting this. I know I should listen to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, but I don’t like Jane Eyre, nor Mister Rochester.
Need a new name for the shawl :(

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May 16, 2011

B E R G F E S T ! First half of shawl is finished! Back part is rather small oO

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May 17, 2011

Back is finished! And the shape of the shawl is clear now, a simply U. Don’t know why, but the wings of the shawl are curved.
-.- Duh!

Currently listening to Carmilla by Sheridan Le Feanu on Gutenberg.org Wonder what to listen next to.

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May 18, 2011

Mister Bertrand and Miss (niece of the wife of the new preacher) gossip happily away over Miss Price. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.
Shawl is growing, 4 PR of the RS are done.

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May 18, 2011

How I despise Edward. Such a stupid and blind fool!
I’m also not too happy with the shaping of the shawl. Due to the construction there will be two humps at the back, making one look like a hunch back. This thing wants blocking. And ideally soft, drapy yarn and big needles.

Also, still not too sure about the length. It’s a bit too long for my liking if I were to shorten the rows, my back would be too exposed. There does seem to be no way to work around this.

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May 19, 2011

Speak up for heaven’s sake! It’s nice and all that you volonteered to read for Gutenberg.org; but if you can only rise your voice to above a mere whisper because you might wake a baby or whatever, can’t speak articulate and have a cold then please don’t volunteer.
Hope the chapter is soon over and that next chapter will be read by someone with a better reading voice.

3 more stitches to decrease before starting the right front. Still wondering whether I should rib and knit Version 1 with the fringe of Version 2.
From what I can see, the two wings will cross over my breasts, for my size I should have knitted more rows for the back.

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Running a race with the yarn, let’s hope I have enough to finish this shawl without having to wait for the further supplies.

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Won the race! Shawl is finished. Now to sew in the ends, wash it and block it, to get the humps out.

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May 20, 2011

Ends are sewn in, shawl is washed, shawl lies on the drying rack, it rains and I wait to see whether the bumps will get blocked out.

The bumps are out, the bumps are out! I don’t have to be a camel.