Number three

I finally started a third one! I know I'm supposed to be doing one in red but I need a shawl to match this dress I've got. It's black kidsilk haze and I'm hoping to have enough to finish it the right size. I've only got two balls of it, so we'll see! Here it is a few repeats in. Slow going because my needles aren't pointy enough and the fuzz makes it hard to see. Plus I'm taking my time on this one as I've got a few other things to focus on as well. Sorry it's a tad blurry, I had to take it without flash or the pattern wouldn't show at all.

Any suggestions on what color beads I should do? I am thinking I might just do more silver ones since I already have them but am wondering what else might look good...

Finished again!

Finally I finished mine tonight, and it's being blocked! Here are pics.


I also have enough of this color left to do a second one. I did 15 repeats of the first part instead of 13, that's the only change. It's zephyr in teal, (the color is off in the pics) and silver beads.

I'm done!

I finished the blocking yesterday. I love this shawl! It ended up small, but just right for a shoulder shawl and I'm happy with it that way. There are a few more details on my blog, not much but a few. I didn't get a great shot of the beads, but they are really pretty, they are green with a subtle difference in color here and there. I think I will knit another one in green, but I'm going to take a little break first. Thank you Susan for such a great pattern!

My Progress

I started my shawl on 4th May and wasn't too happy with it - I just didn't seem to have the pattern right. I persisted with it but on Thursday 10th decided enough was enough and ripped it back. I started again on Friday and despite dropping a stitch and having to go back a full pattern repeat on Saturday afternoon I have actually managed to make it to 9 pattern repeats of the upper body pattern. The shawl looks quite small although it does stretch out quite a lot. I've decided to knit 17 repeats of the upper body pattern instead of 13 because I am using 3.25mm needles instead of the recommended 3.75mm ones and feel it may turn out very small otherwise.

Angie

More pictures on my blog.

One down, one to go!

Yayyy I finished one of my shawls. The one for my mom, I was further on that so I finished it up first. It's blocking right now and I'm sooo glad it stretched out as much as it did because it seemed tiny when I finally got it off the needles. It probably blocked out to almost twice it's size. Thannnnk God. Ok so here's pictures!

Here is the whole thing blocking, the dark spots are where it's wet on the towel, sorry that it's green lol, the only clean one left in the cabinet (note to self, do laundry!):Closeups of the edges where the carpet makes the pattern easier to see:


I'm sooo thrilled, I'll take an action shot tomorrow if it's dry before sending it off to my mom. Now I'm off to finish mine!

Beads!

I got tired of waiting for my hook. I discovered that some of the beads have larger holes and I managed to get my size 10 crochet hook through them. When I couldn't find any more that it would fit in, I fashioned a sort of lasso out of wire and used that lol. On my teal one I found the silver beads have square openings and if I turn the hook diagonally, it will just fit through! SO I started beading. I am on the second chart B repeat on the green one, and on the teal one, I just finished the first beading row. They look so much prettier in person but it's night so my pictures suck because of lighting. I can't wait to finish! I want to start my red one, and I'm going to do one in black Kidsilk Haze.

Finished!

I finished the shawl today, and it's blocking right now. I'm so happy with the finished product, but it is smaller than I expected. I guess I didn't visualize what the size would be. I want to knit another and will use several more repeats of the charts to make it larger. Here's a couple of pics of it while it is blocking.


PS - if anyone sees an error in it - please don't tell me!!! LOL

I'm looking for some other beaded shawl patterns if y'all know of any nice ones.