Year of Projects #8 - Finished!

 

Really there are no words to say how pleased I am with this finished shawl.  So I will let the picture do the talking. 

See you next week as the ongoing 54 Pickup is, well, picked up again....and there may also be a Jemima Puddleduck too. 

Year of Projects Update #7 - StEEKing

 

Well, yes, I did lose at yarn chicken so last week I headed over town to pick up two more balls of yarn.  

On Friday I crocheted on either side of the steeking area following some YouTuber.  It seemed straight forward enough. 

Ready to cut...

Reading to pick up a gazillion stitches. 

and then I had to pick up 278 stitches on each side of the triangle and then knit across the 383 stitches along the top.  Yup, 939 stitches per round.  AND...I had to increase every round for the 13 rounds of the  front border. So now I was at about 1050 stitches. Once those 13 rows were complete I added two rows of the contrast colour and now currently I am decreasing every round. Once I finish the border I will fold the border in half and sew it to the back side of the shawl hiding the steeked edges. 

My steeking definitely had some wonky areas but I was able to catch where the yarn wanted to unravel and tie off any offending mis-steeks.  See what I did there?

Border about 17 of 26 rows

I should be done this week.  Then I can get back to my 54 Card Pickup. 

I did score a wonderful kit of 25gm balls of every colour imaginable at Value Village.  I think this will be excellent for small gnomes and other soft toys. 

Hope everyone else is making progress on their projects. 

And now back to my never-ending rounds of border!