I have wanted to knit the wilderness shawl for a long time and finally chose the colours and wool and so I began this week. It became apparent as I reached the second repeat of the chart that this shawl was going to be heavy - more like worsted weight because of carrying the second colour along. In my mind I imagined the shawl to be more light - and so on Saturday night I frogged the whole thing.
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| before the frogging... |
I am glad I stopped myself from continuing the pattern. It does look cool, and I will find a lighter yarn and start again some time in the future.
I was brave enough to finally cast on my 52 pickup. I am calling it 54 pickup because I am including the two jokers. I did as the designer suggested and took a deck of cards and randomly shuffled them and intermixed them face up and face down to create a truly random and unique layout.
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| my chart for 6 x 9 lap blanket Alasdair has calculated that the chance of someone else knitting the same order as I have randomly chosen is 4.16 x 10 to the power of 87 to 1. |
And here is my progress as of last night.
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| Side One Can you see the King, Jack and 4 emerging? |
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| Side two Can you see a Jack, Joker and 6 emerging? |
Both of your projects look amazing. I'm sorry you weren't happy with the Wilderness Shawl. I agree, it will look better in a lighter yarn.
ReplyDeleteYour 54 pick-up looks amazing. Will it be a blanket? How beautiful and perfect if you are a card player. I'm sorry the shawl was too heavy. The pattern is indeed beautiful.
ReplyDeleteSorry about the shawl. But I do like your 54 pick up.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to hear about the shawl Mary-Ann but the lap blanket of my but I just love this! How unique and special and yes extreme double knitting but what a project when done!!
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to hear about the shawl Mary-Ann but the lap blanket of my but I just love this! How unique and special and yes extreme double knitting but what a project when done!!
ReplyDeleteWowza this card project is amazing. What a brilliant design and already yours is looking great. Hopefully the perfect lighter yarn will be found in future to do the shawl at the weight you’d like. Liz (Highlandheffalump)
ReplyDeleteWow - I'm sorry about the wilderness shawl, but the double knitting 54 pick up will be amazing and deserves your attention!
ReplyDeleteOh I love the cards! That is going to be so cool.
ReplyDeleteI admire that you knew you didn't want to finish the Wilderness shawl with the yarn you started with and frogged it, but oh how I groaned for you reading that. I look forward to seeing it in a lighter weight yarn someday. I have no familiarity with double knitting - it sounds really complicated.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're not giving up on the shawl completely but your 54 pick up project is looking amazing especially as it sounds sooooo complicated!
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