17-06-2022

Working on gauge and shawl shape…

23-06-2022

stretch sideseams before blocking

place marker at first purl row with 9 stitches… to match first purl row with 1 stitch

needles:
side seams+icord+first leaf row: 2.5
orange: 3.6
rest 3.3

icord for leaf = 2 rows
icord for spacer = 8 rows
(rightmost is first sideseam)

sideseam stitches = 23, do not knit together first purl row..

last side stitch on the purl side with 5 stitches

27-06-2022

Nope sorry had to uravel, couldent stand the smooth mandarin alpaca any longer…

Luckily i have some holst coast..

denim: 3.6
sideseam = 24 stitches (my bad)

04-07-2022

NOPE! do not like the gauge on the german wool, it sort of twines up after knitting. making it A LOT tighter…

On the other hand I do want more intarsia of the two yarns…

Unravelled + new pattern:

icord + stems + 1. row = 2.7 needles
rest = 3.6 needles

11-07-2022

Frogged yeat again…
More intarsia, less needle structure.
But really satisfied this time.

co-sideseam + stems + 1. row and co-stem in 2.5
rest in 3.6

Two-color purl as the basis for the intarsia.

09-08-2022

Having fun with large needles while waiting for extra yarn for the original wings…

13-05-2023

Finishing for now in extra large leaving the zauberball for another time.
Have temporarily lost the pattern notes on a crashed computer. but they are forthcoming.
the very briefest description goes like this:

The shawl is knitted in colorchanging yarns (the sides are old coop-wool, and the middle blue and brown sections are old leftovers appx same gauge).
no breaks no sewing.

Needles 7, hook 6. The mid section has a lot of stitches, I reccomend circular needles.

Start with 4 rows of 3-stitch icord, do not close off!

Keep the 3 live stitches, take out 4 stitches (i-cord cast on) back along the edge.

Knit a feather/leaf from these 4 stitches- on each purl row take out a stitch, leave it on the needle -the right side of the leaf will end up with stitches along the side, ending with the 3 icord stitches.

Stop taking out stitches when the feather decreases begin.

From the tip of the feather crochet back to the live stitches.

Knit all the way back to the 3 icord stitches.

use these 3 to knit a new pice of icord.

-repeat almost as before, leave the 3 stitches, take out back along the cord as base for the next column of feathers.

begin each purl row with a k2tog from the previous column, end it with a cast on.

lots of fiddleing with the caston and off to make them pretty and easy- also i cheated ad broke the yarn a few places to get sharper color definitions. also a lot of experimenting to get intarsia to work without breaking the yarn.