gathering it all together
Shetland Trader’s Aestlight shawl appealed to me as soon as I saw it. “Stash buster!” thought I.
It’s an easy garter stitch triangle, with an interesting construction. There’s a simple, repetitive lace border, and a knitted-on edging. Quite a quick knit, at fingering weight, and only one skein needed.
In fact, I liked it so much that I have completed three so far…
Details and gallery.
Brandywine is a special pattern – most of the sale price is donated to MSF.
Simply the most wearable of shawls; a garter stitch body is knitted from the point upwards, maximising use of yarn, with a stocking stitch lace border and point edging added as you go. It is reminiscent of Aestlight, but the construction is very different indeed.
I made mine from a stashed skein of Smooshy.
Details and gallery.
Don’t ask me where/when/how it went wrong. It shouldn’t have. But it did. I weighed it regularly. It became a religion almost. I even built in 2 grams leeway for safety. But I still ran out. I could reknit. Or I could unravel the start until it is the same width as the end. Or …