It Blocked!
August 20th, 2007
I’ve been knitting pretty steadily on my Evergreen shawl lately, and almost at the end of every row I feel the need to stretch out the stitches and mimick blocking. I just love the way they look, and have been anxious to block it. I couldn’t wait any longer, so I blocked it (still on the needle) last night. First, I wanted to make sure this yarn blocks well, and it does. Second, I just had to see the stitches in their blocked state. It’s wonderful!
I’m still working on the pattern bit by bit. Right now it’s mostly formatting, and getting everything to look right. I’m working out how to do the border on the top, which I’ve already tested out a bit. It involves knitting on the bind-off stitches a garter border 3 stitches wide. It matches the garter border on each side. I just need to swatch and make sure that I get exactly how to do it right so it looks good. Anyone have any experience knitting perpendicularly to a bind-off edge?
Corey thinks this won’t be done until it starts snowing (he envisions photos of me in it surrounded by snow). I don’t know, because I have faith in its ability to entrance me over the long term. It’s just the right kind of non-stockinette project for me. It has something different every row, and requires me to pay a little bit of attention. However, it’s so simple I don’t have concentrate to figure it out.
Gorgeous! How big is it and how big will it be?
That’s so pretty! Reminds me a lot of the Elfine socks I’m making…