Superhero Fiestaware Shawlette
Finished
March 19, 2020
March 22, 2020

Superhero Fiestaware Shawlette

Project info
Rusty Bucket Shawlette by Pam Jemelian
Knitting
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
Needles & yarn
US 7 - 4.5 mm
349 yards = 2.48 skeins
Valley Yarns Berkshire
none left in stash
1 skein = 141.0 yards (128.9 meters), 100 grams
later than other skein
Blue
WEBS - America's Yarn Store in Northampton, Massachusetts
April 15, 2010
Valley Yarns Berkshire
9 yards in stash
0.6 skeins = 84.6 yards (77.4 meters), 60 grams
Blue-green
WEBS - America's Yarn Store in Northampton, Massachusetts
November 9, 2010
Valley Yarns Berkshire
4 yards in stash
0.36 skeins = 50.8 yards (46.4 meters), 36 grams
Red
WEBS - America's Yarn Store in Northampton, Massachusetts
December 6, 2014
Valley Yarns Berkshire
none left in stash
0.3 skeins = 42.3 yards (38.7 meters), 30 grams
Orange
WEBS - America's Yarn Store in Northampton, Massachusetts
December 6, 2014
Valley Yarns Berkshire
none left in stash
0.22 skeins = 31.0 yards (28.4 meters), 22 grams
Yellow
WEBS - America's Yarn Store in Northampton, Massachusetts
December 6, 2014
Notes

Fun to work! I couldn’t decide whether the color combo looked more like a superhero costume or Fiestaware, but it’s definitely not a rusty bucket. grinning

I tweaked the color arrangement a bit because I was using up leftover skeins and didn’t have enough to do a couple colors as written. The bindoff is turquoise rather than royal because I ran short on the royal and my other royal skein was too obviously a different dyelot.

I’ve made several of this designer’s scarves, and I consistently get a smaller scarf and use less yarn than the pattern says. True in this case too: the pattern said her scarf used about 410 yards and was about six feet long; mine used much less and might block to five feet if I stretch it, and that’s with a heavier yarn than she used.

Berkshire makes a lovely and squishy scarf. If I were to make this pattern with this yarn again (and were starting with full skeins rather than remnants so didn’t have to worry about running out), I’d use a larger needle.

In the Green Wave and Red Wave sections, I wasn’t sure whether to count the double stitch as part of the number of stitches. I didn’t count it and made sure to be consistent throughout; if that wasn’t how it was supposed to be done, it still looks fine.

In the last sentence of the Red Edge Wave section, the first WS should be a RS.

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About this yarn
by Valley Yarns
Aran
85% Wool, 15% Alpaca
141 yards / 100 grams

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  • Originally queued: July 28, 2018
  • Project created: March 20, 2020
  • Finished: March 23, 2020
  • Updated: May 26, 2020