09-24-2024

Controlling tension in the colorwork cables is hard. Looking for helpful tips.

I find that if you bead the stitch after knitting it (per the pattern), the stitch tends to elongate and be sloppy. That’s causing my beads to fall to the back (along with the floats pulling on it). Beading the stitch and then knitting it will help alleviate this. I’m now beading the same stitches but from the wrong side row and then knitting them instead of on the right side row after knitting them and it seems a little better?

I’m using mirror knitting for the wrong side rows because i can’t control tension of floats while purling at all. Ymmv

Don’t forget to wrap the b2 yarn! It’s nearly intarsia so wrap aggressively to prevent holes.

And put b2 in a yarn butterfly so it doesn’t tangle with all that wrapping.

b2 is about 8 feet with my gauge.

02-17-2025

Finished stripe section 5. 57g of white and 41 g of red remaining. This appears to be on track for the usage indicated in the pattern on page 5. Therefore, I’ll complete the shawl at a medium size (stripe section 6 as the final section).

On page 7 it says to work stripe section 6 for a small and 7 for a medium. That’s incorrect both per page 5 and the final stitch counts.