My modified #ReynaKAL shawl is almost done. I just need to work in the ends and block it.
An added benefit to having to unravel and bind off earlier is that I saw that it was curling badly. (I’m not used to lace doing that.) I noted that my garter stitch rows are tighter than my lace, so I went up a needle size for the final three garter rows and bind off. It’s not a cure, but it helped.
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#knitting #FiberArts no advice please
I’m glad I changed the shawl shape; it sits nicely on my shoulders. I’ll be giving it to a knitting group friend because I don’t like wearing most shades of pink. I wanted to use up this yarn.
I’d have had a lot of extra yarn if I stuck to the original pattern and didn’t keep going; the rows on this shape grow half again as quickly as the original, so my shawl used 50% more yarn than the original.
Now I have to figure out which of my soothing easy knitting projects to dig out.
There’s the all garter stitch shawl of the same shape, knit in someone else’s handspun, or there’s the knitted squares of bright sock yarn for another scrap blanket.
I think knitting individual squares is more comfy in August heat, so that’s the plan, I think.
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Naomi P