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No Biggie WWW
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Looking down Afton Mountain
Looking down Afton Mountain
Blocked to 80 inches wide by 16 inches tall.
Blocked to 80 inches wide by 16 inches tall.
Finished Color B with over 6 inches left.
Finished Color B with over 6 inches left.
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Finished
September 1, 2017
September 20, 2017

No Biggie WWW

Project info
Wonder Woman Wrap (knit) by Carissa Browning
Knitting
Neck / Torso → Shawl / Wrap
Wee
Needles & yarn
US 8 - 5.0 mm
511 yards = 5.5 skeins
Nashua Handknits Julia
3 skeins = 279.0 yards (255.1 meters), 150 grams
4345 Coleus
Red-purple
Fresh Purls in Providence, Rhode Island
Nashua Handknits Julia
2.5 skeins = 232.5 yards (212.6 meters), 125 grams
121 Persimmon
Orange
WEBS - America's Yarn Store in Northampton, Massachusetts
Notes
  1. I am so glad I followed the short rows technique used by Ann Kingstone. She demonstrates using lockable stitchmarkers in each short row stitch so as to make it easier to pick up the wrap when working it with the wrapped stitch.
  2. I realized after working the first set of short rows in the bottom triangle that I could just bring the yarn forward in both front and back wraps. It made working the other 2 top triangles simpler.
  3. For the short rows in “red” on the sides of the W, I did not break the “gold” yarn, but carried it up the side. It may not seem like much, but that was 4 less spots (8 strands) of end-weaving avoided!
  4. For my next WWW, I plan on using an extra YO so as to keep the KFB looser because I dislike the shawl’s tight curling from the shoulders. If the result does not look as streamlined, I might try “K2, YO” and “YO, K2” instead of the “K1, KFB” and “KFB, K1” at the ends.

September 1, 2017

I will be following the smaller shawl’s instructions, but using either DK or worsted weight.

September 20, 2017

Last night I had to frog the first W triangle TWICE because I could not give it the attention it required. I did figure out a way to keep the stitch count in check: Use a removable stitch marker (I used 2 and alternated them) for the center W instead of “removing marker, PSSO, place marker” instructions. It saved a ton of aggravation.

The shawl blocked from 64 inches wide and 12 inches tall to 80 inches wide and 16 inches tall.

September 24, 2017

Finally I found the perfect place to photograph this finished object: looking down Afton Mountain while perched on a boulder -- all while wearing my red Frye boots.

September 28, 2017

Submitted for DADA Fall 2017 homework.

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Finished
September 1, 2017
September 20, 2017
 
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Wonder Woman Wrap (knit)
by Carissa Browning
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Julia
by Nashua Handknits
Worsted
50% Wool, 25% Alpaca, 25% Mohair
93 yards / 50 grams

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  • Originally queued: July 13, 2017
  • Project created: September 1, 2017
  • Finished: September 24, 2017
  • Updated: October 30, 2017
  • Progress updates: 2 updates