Frogged!!
August 18th, 2007
Remember this?
Well, I frogged it. I decided that I wasn’t as excited about the stitch pattern anymore, and I wished I’d done the triple increase a little differently. I didn’t like the extraneous holes. On a whim I ripped it all out and started over with a stitch pattern that acts in a very similar way. It’s the very same lace stitch that I used on my Faroese shawl. I fell so much in love with it, I decided to translate it to a point up shawl.
I call it evergreen, as it reminds Corey of pine cones. Although it was pretty easy to figure out, I’m quite proud of my cleverness in getting this to work just right. I’m also in love with the 3 stitch garter edging, which can only look like such a great detail at such a fine gauge. I went down two needle sizes from what I was doing with the candle flames original, and I’m much happier with the resulting fabric. I keep stretching this one out and staring at it, imagining its fully blocked state.
Even though this shawl is pretty easy, and probably pretty easy to figure out if you’re creative enough and take the time to do it, I’m creating a pattern for this shawl. I noticed there doesn’t seem to be any easy to find simple triangular shawl using this stitch pattern. What better way to practice my pattern crafting skills than with this. I’ve actually got most of it up; I just need to do the line by line instructions and clean it up. Although, it won’t __really__ be finished until I have a picture of the finished shawl!
Well, I liked the old pattern but the new one is gorgeous! It definitely looks like pine cones zoomed in. Can’t wait to see the pattern.
Well, it’s never fun to frog, but I agree that you should be excited about the projects you knit, so it’s good that you started over. The new version looks lovely.
Thanks Annie and Elizabeth