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Oread
PI Shawl (July) by Elizabeth Zimmermann
Knitting
me
I'll let you know
Needle and yarn
US 10½ - 6.5 mm
Fiesta Yarns Heaven
930.0 yards in stash
0.5 skeins = 155.0 yards (141.7m)
8111- Catalina
01105
Blue-green
Knit-a-Bit in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
GGH Soft Kid
1.5 skeins = 225.0 yards (205.7m)
TK
Gray
Rowan Kidsilk Haze
1 skeins = 229.0 yards (209.4m)
645
Green
The Scrap Exchange in Durham, North Carolina
Unknown Laceweight Mohair
0.5 skeins = 114.5 yards (104.7m)
Green Variegated
Green
The Scrap Exchange in Durham, North Carolina
Valley Yarns 2/14 Alpaca Silk
1736.0 yards in stash
Olive
Green
webs
Notes
  • I just posted the recipe for my Oread on my blog, here.

  • An Oread is a type of nymph from ancient Greek mythology. They lived in mountains, valleys, and ravines. The greens and grays of this shawl evoked that sort of imagery for me.

  • Yarn used: I have a cone of the Alpaca-Silk; I’m holding one strand of the that yarn with one strand of each of these mohair yarns, starting in the middle of the circle with the lightest color (the Kidsilk Haze) then working my way out to the gray. The 10 1/2 needles make this go SO QUICKLY. I’m doing a concentric yarn-over pattern every six rounds, which also makes this go quickly. I want to wear it NOW.

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Finished
April 2010
April 18 2010
 
About this pattern
PI Shawl (July)
by Elizabeth Zimmermann
from Knitter's Almanac
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About this yarn
Kidsilk Haze
by Rowan
Lace / 2 ply
70% Mohair, 30% Silk
229 yards / 25 grams
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17326 projects, stashed 14067 times
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Soft Kid
by GGH
DK / 8 ply
70% Mohair, 25% Nylon, 5% Wool
151 yards / 25 grams
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886 projects, stashed 1048 times
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Heaven
by Fiesta Yarns
Worsted / 10 ply
64% Mohair, 28% Wool, 8% Nylon
260 yards / 56 grams
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63 projects, stashed 102 times
About this yarn
2/14 Alpaca Silk
by Valley Yarns
Lace / 2 ply
80% Alpaca, 20% Silk
1736 yards / 226 grams
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568 projects, stashed 650 times
  • Project created: April 13, 2010
  • Finished: April 18, 2010
  • Updated: November 25, 2010