I finished my sock club socks, so as a reward, I get to knit silk. I love knitting with mora so this ought to be fun.

Journal

2016-08-31: Cast on and complete color 1.

2016-09-01: Complete first part, color 2 & 3.

2016-09-14: I’m on the 5th color and I just discovered that colors 2-6 should have only had 9 repeats instead of 15. At the end of the fifth color +MC, I have 109 stitches. Even if I reduce out 1/3 of the stitches in the 6th color, I’ll have way too man stitches, so I’m going to rip back to color 2.

2016-09-15: Complete 3rd color with correct number of repeats.

2016-09-16: Complete 4th color.

2016-09-17: Complete 5th color.

2016-09-20: Complete 6th color. First stripe section complete.

2016-09-23: Complete CC6 pattern section.

2016-09-24: While working on the 3rd pattern row of CC5, I discovered that I was off by 2 stitches. I found that in the 2nd pattern row, I did an extra YO & k3tog into the stitch, resulting in 5 stitches. This isn’t really visible in the fabric -- its just a little bigger, but it did throw me off. So I backed up to this stitch and did a couple of k2tog to return to the correct stitch count. My stitches are now lined up.

2016-09-25: Complete CC5 pattern section.

2016-09-26: Complete CC4 pattern section.

2016-11-01: Complete CC3 pattern section.

2016-11-03: Complete CC2 pattern section.

2016-11-04: Complete CC1 pattern section and start CC1 repeat of section 4.

2016-11-05: Complete CC1, section 4

2016-11-06: Complete CC2, section 4; compete CC3, section 4.

2016-11-08: Complete knitting shawl. Times to weave in ends.

Summary

• Color order: Lettuce, Sunset, Sabiduria, Paris Night, Teal Feather, Cereza with a background of Plomo.

• Starting section: Oops. I did 15 garter ridges for each section at beginning of shawl instead of 15 - 9 - 9 - 9 - 9 - 9. On the 6th color section, I am reducing out 5 stitches as I knit -- i will gain only 10 stitches. After the final background section, I’d have 121 stitches instead of the 93. This is way to big, so ripped back and knit it right.

• The pattern stitch from the middle section lines up over the center of the slipped background stitch. The pattern stitch consists of 3 CC color stitches. The middle stitch lines up over the slipped stitch

• Somewhere in the middle of the third section i switched to US 3 needles. Oops. Doesn’t seem to have mad e difference, but it makes my yarn usage a bit inaccurate for future reference.

Pattern Notes

• Pattern repeat is a multiple of 4+1