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Knitting Friday
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| #1 Mr. Bear in circular shawl |
I've been hawking Paton's crochet circular shawl for a long time now:
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| #2 As a throw |
so I think it's time to show some good pictures of it. #1 is the shawl in wool and a god-awful gold color. This is tapestry wool from an LYS which was going out of business. I bought two big skeins of it (yes, it was cheap) and was able to make a shawl to reach past my elbows. In #1, that looks like a lot of yarn left to use but this shawl is a folded over circle so it eats up yarn fast.
In picture 2, you see the second use of this shawl as a throw.
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| #3 The Pillsbury Dough Boy |
I
originally started this pattern in white acrylic to re-work a big afghan into a very
warm, big shawl. You can see this is #3 and notice the difference in
lengths from #1 to #3. The shawl is so very warm.
Unfortunately, you look like the Pillsbury Dough Boy in it which for a house shawl is OK .
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| #4 PDB as a throw |
As you can see from #4, the PDB shawl makes a really large throw. This does become very repetitive crochet but it's a great TV, talking to others, project.
A few tips if you're interested in making this:
1. This pattern uses UK terminology.
2. Once you get to your width, just DC, ch1, in every space. No more increases of Loop TR, ch1, Loop TR, ch1 in every nth space. (The Loop TR in American terms is a *YO and put hook through designated st, YO again and pull hook through stitch. [3 loops on hook], YO and draw through 2 loops on hook* 2xs in the same stitch, With 3 loops left on hook, YO and draw through all loops on hook - 1 loop left on hook.)
3. Once you start working the no-increase stage, you may find yourself still increasing. If it's 2 DC in one space instead of just one, treat that increase as one stitch and work around it. However, if you really zone out and make a Loop TR increase described above, you should tink that since that's too bulky to fudge.
3. If you change the pattern, (as I described above) and end long after you stopped the increases, you won't have the right configuration for the elaborate border given. I don't think you even need a border or you can use any crochet border you want.
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| #5 What is this pattern? |
Now on to some knitting stuff. In #5, you see the swatch for a half circle shawl, all in K. Here you work an increase row (where you double your stitch count between your 2 K edge stitches) after a number of knit rows, which are multiples of 2. So, after your CO, you K 2 rows, work an increase row**, K 4 rows, another increase row, K 8 rows, an increase row, K 16 rows, another increase row. You see the pattern. I'm thinking that like the crocheted circular shawl above, once you get to your width you could work a mock increase row to keep the lace look by working a row of: *K2tog, YO* at intervals.
**Sorry
I can't find the pattern right now but I think the increases were *K1,
YO*, though you could work your increases any way you like. But watch
your gauge if you do.
As you know, I got back to crocheting because I love to buy lace-weight yarn and lace is so tricky (for me) when I knit it. But I think I may tackle pattern #5 with lace because it is so simple.
And finally a plug for Lion Brand because I really think they have improved their free patterns enormously. (Plus, they made all their patterns free which was a very nice gift.) So with my warm feelings for LB, I went back to this crochet half-circle Sea Shell shawl:
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| #6 Sea Shell Shawl |
which is ubiquitous but which I had been ignoring. In #5, you see a swatch for it. It's so easy and I'm thinking with a much larger hook and finer yarn, it'll be a winner.
That's it for today. I have loads more ideas for knitting and crocheting but my little fingers are tired.
See you next week. Happy Knitting.
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