The amazing technicolor dream shawl is complete!!!! I began this huge shawl in 2008 and stuck with it through thick and thin. I consider it my first knitted masterwork.
Shawl, mixed fibers - wool, mohair, nylon, silk; woven stitch, size 4 wood cable needle, 24 inches.
12 years! The challenge, beyond persistence, has been to keep the characteristics of the fabric the same over all those years. With the basic formula of color sequence being to use a black yarn every third or fourth row, the challenge was to keep the color sequences as random as possible and to keep from beginning to favor warm or cool colors. The process had to involve looking back at the fabric each time I began kntting in order to check the colors and keep them at a sufficient level of consistency so that the fabric stayed the same and didn't change into something else. I loved the whole thing!
All told, it has dozens of yarns, beads and sequins. I also had to be vigilant regarding the beads and sequins. I watched carefully as I used the beaded and sequined yarn to make sure that they were distributed evenly through the fabric and not clustered.
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Included in summary entry for 2012
December 2011
March 2009
September 2008
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