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[jenett]

I have managed to take *and* upload photos of knitting, as well as woven in the ends on the scarf. They're up on Ravelry (for people on there who don't know this, I am, perhaps unsurprisingly, Jenett, and you can see them on the project page there: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Jenett)

But there might as well be photos here, too:

This is a scarf done in alternating double rows (one knit, one purl) alternating Noro Silk Garden #8 (which is blues and greens and purples) with a really really dark navy worsted wool. It's about 5 feet long, and about 8 inches wide.

From Noro Scarf

And this is the shawl in progress, using a pattern that starts from the neck down (so the stuff you see at the bottom of this photo will eventually be the long flat edge, and the point is going to come from what's currently at the center of the needles.) I am currently at 76 rows and not yet done with the first skein of yarn (which was 420 yard to the skein), so I am currently planning to on for a fair bit, and make a gloriously huge and drapy shawl.

From Simple but effective shawl - Spinel

This is the Spinel yarn from Blue Moon Fiber Arts - it really is lovely to knit with, and very pleasant to touch, and will be cozy and comfy when done (and quite comfortable on bare skin, if like me, you don't have wool-related allergies.) You can see why I like the color dappling effect.

At 76 rows (where I am right now), it's about 18 inches from top to point, unblocked, and I expect it to gain some in the blocking.

I'm doing this in a numeric pattern: double rows based on Pagan-relevant numbers. (Well, I skipped 9, but 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, and I think I'm going to do 13, because I've got the yarn for it, and it should get me to about the size I want. Going through 12 is going to be 90 rows. We're adding 4 stitches every other row, so that's roughly 180 stitches across at 90 rows, and will be 232 across if I go through 13s.)

I have a plan to do one of the sets of yarn coming sometime sooner than later in a reverse Fibonacci sequence using the same basic pattern (reverse, because if I'm doing 42 rows of something, I'd rather it were shorter rows than longer. 42, 26, 16, 10, 3, 4, 2, 2)

(The numbers have to be doubled, because the pattern requires even pairs of rows so you don't end up with odd wrong side/right side problems.)

Comments

[ethaisa]

Oh, so pretty - I love the Noro colourway you're using. (Also added you on Ravelry, not that I presently have anything myself up there except my stash.)

[beltainelady.livejournal.com]

I made the same shawl in an aubergine color to match a hat I'd made. It's insanely easy, isn't it? I'll probably make another at some point, in the cooler months when I can stand something warm over my legs ;)

[jenett]

It is! I picked it for that reason, because I was going to be working on it at Paganicon, and knew that anything more complicated was doomed to failure. (I did end up frogging most of that, but eh.)

But I love it because I don't have to think, just knit. (Except at the beginning and end and when I hit the stitch marker.)

[solcita.livejournal.com]

I'm doing a Noro Scarf right now, too, but sadly mine isn't anywhere near as lovely as yours. (I'm also kind if put out at it right now--despite buying two completely different colorways of Silk Garden Lite, I have a spot near the middle of the scarf where they both turned to the exact same shade of pink for about five rows each. Augh!)

[jenett]

I understand from D that that's a common problem in some colorways. I did some judicious pruning and spit splicing on the second ball of mine - it was all blue until the very end. (Which normally, I am all for, but that was not the point of this scarf.)

I sort of want to run #8 against the new reds one they have, but fear lots of red-and-green space. Doing it against a neutral was rather nice, though.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Nice effect on the Silk Garden. I just got a skein of Noro Aya at a discount -- it's mostly cotton and silk with only 15% wool, which I think will make my neck happier than my existing Noro scarf and be quite adequate to Seattle winters.

[jenett]

Yeah, the Silk Garden is a bit scratchy, but it's so pretty, I can't really argue with it :) (Mostly, too, I wrap scarves outside my coat to prevent cold chills down my neck, so it's only over my face where it touches much skin.)

[pameladean]

Those are both really pretty, and seem very much you.

P.