Saturday, May 01, 2010

If I told you ...

that I added an extra row of eyelets to this pattern, that I found in a vintage Paton's Woolcraft,

specifically to get the Noro Kureyon Sock to change colours once per pattern repeat
like this

you'd believe me ?
Wouldn't you ?



don't quite know what it's going to be just yet - stole ? scarf ? shrug ? because I want to see how far one ball [ a fairly impressive 420 metres ] will go.

and I think that if I show you another triangular shawl this month *
... well
... let's just say that even I have limits to my obsessiveness**

If my admittedly rough calculations are correct I'll get 28 repeats of the lace from the ball and then it's all up to how aggressively I block the result.

Stay tuned

* and of course, after I posted this, I realised what the date is - it's a whole new month ! Happy May 1st
** but those colour changes would look SOOOOOOOOOOOO good in a triangular shawl
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12 comments:

  1. Rose Red6:41 pm

    If you told me you added an eyelet to the pattern repeat to get the colour changes to work out nicely, I'd say you were very clever indeed!

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  2. lisette7:34 pm

    it's beautiful!!

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  3. Nadie8:24 pm

    nice :)
    looks to me like it wants to be a scarf, but maybe that's just cos I like scarves with horizontal stripes.

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  4. catsmum9:07 pm

    Is that a not-too-subtle hint Nadie my sweet?

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  5. ozjane9:13 pm

    Maybe it is time to sell some of these beauties.....?
    Then you can make more with a clear conscience.

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  6. Marcie10:01 pm

    no doubt it would make a beautiful shawl, but just think of the calculating you'd have to do for regular repeats...
    Of course it would still be gorgeous with irregular repeats :-)

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  7. Lottery Girl12:10 am

    That is so cool how you got that to work out so nicely! And I really wouldn't care if you made another shawl at all--I adore looking at them!

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  8. Sheepish Annie8:22 am

    I always believe you. And I admire your determination to make the colors do your bidding! It looks great!

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  9. Lynne11:21 am

    I would believe you! It's looking good.

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  10. Kate/Massachusetts5:46 am

    I had to use the Wayback Machine to find this tip that I had seen ages ago. I hope it works! Check out the April tip for controling color placement. I think this is what you did by default!
    http://web.archive.org/web/20080514023501/www.artisanlace.co.nz/fine_tuning.htm

    Her tip really does work for a scarf or shawl that has a consistent # of stitches.

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  11. Kate/Massachusetts5:48 am

    http://web.archive.org/web/20080514023501/www.artisanlace.co.nz/fine_tuning.htm


    The link keeps breaking. Try this one~

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  12. Kate/Massachusetts5:53 am

    Arggh...
    I'll break it in pieces:

    http://web.archive.org/
    web/20080514023501/
    www.artisanlace.
    co.nz/fine_tuning.htm

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