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April 29, 2005
New Project- So Excited!
My pal Helen is getting married in August on the Islands of Guernsey and Herme (and we are all heading over to camp for the week, hopefully also visiting Sark- heads up to all Mr Pye fans) and she has asked me (read as "I persuaded her"!) to knit her a shawl wrap to go with her wedding dress. Her dress is very simple, clean lines, halter neck and slight fish tail at the hem, very fitted, either cream or champagne with tiny pearl beads- the dress will suit her both physically and personality-wise, as she is a rough, tough, cool tom-boy who also likes lilac and pink! In addtion, her little niece will be wearing a lilac dress, so have decided to go for a lavender/lilac theme...
So I have decided on the perfect shawl, incorporating one of my favourite yarns: Rowan Kid Silk Haze, in Dewberry, for use on Lily Chin's Reversible Rib Shawl (pattern in Vogue Knitting, Winter 1999/2000), picture of a beautiful finished shawl here, courtesy of Nimrodel from the Knitty Boards.
Am fizzy with excitement at the thought of knitting this. And it means I can use my stitch markers too! Happy happy happy days.
p.s. Glittr is in Dublin at the moment with her ma and other Irish knitty people. Hello Glittr and Carol! Have a guiness for me.
Posted by scumkitten at April 29, 2005 3:34 PM
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ooohhh reversible rib in dewberry! That's what I was planning to use until I located some of the pink stuff. I can't resist pink. Drop me a line when you post photos--I'd love to see it.
Also--I placed stitch markers between every 24 stitches which helped prevent mistakes. I knew that I always had to have 2 purl stitches before each stitch marker and 2 knit stitches after the markers. The markers eliminated the need to count very much on the cable rows. I only had to count the stitches going on the cable needle.
Another hint--I alternated colors of stitch markers. So I knew in row nine I had to do the cable crossing after the red markers and in row 21 I had to do the cable crossing after the blue markers (or whatever rows they were in)
Posted by: Laura at May 9, 2005 8:17 PM
Ah- you see, I'm doing just the above, because I noticed you'd used stitch markers in yours... admit haven't gone as far as blue/red markers, but that's because I have multicoloured fish markers.... but still, yes, I'd recommend to anyone the marker system every 24- definately helps.
Posted by: Scumkitten at May 10, 2005 12:54 PM
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