Knitted Shawls 3

Knitted Shawls, III

This is my Peacock Feathers shawl. This is a design by Fiddlesticks Knitting. I made it out of Jaggerspun Zephyr, a wool and silk laceweight yarn. It measures 100" across the top edge and 48" down the back, a little larger than I expected, but it was so easy, I guess I relaxed some while I knitted it. I got four ounces of yarn, and I have a lot of it left over. The color is a peacock color, and I found the color really bled when I washed it. However, I detect no change in the color of the shawl, really.

Above are two more shots of the shawl. There are *lots* of feathers in this design. I thought I was never going to get past the small feathers at the center back of the shawl. <G> They do make a nice lacy, light shawl, though, when it's done. To the left is a shot of the center back tip. This shawl took me five weeks to knit.

This is the shawl I'm working on now. It's the Creatures of the Reef shawl by Fiddlesticks Knitting. I'm using exactly the same yarn here that I did for the Forest Path stole, Jaggerspun Zephyr. I've become a real fan of that yarn. It's light and quite soft. I bought a cone of this color, and I'm still whittling away at it. This is an easy pattern, and it seems to go faster and faster as you start the shawl at the bottom and decrease as you go up. Naturally, this is still not dressed, so it's not at its prettiest. This shawl is garter stitched, so it looks really small here.

Around the bottom edge of the shawl are lovely little seashells. This makes a pretty scalloped edge on it. These are easy enough, but there comes a point where all the fullness of the seashells is decreased out. You knit 13 together to do that. Once you get past that row, the rest of it is easy--or at least, it has been so far.

Immediately above the seashells, there's a row of bubbles. Now, Dorothy doesn't tell you to put a lot of markers in that row, but I found that I needed them to facilitate the counting of the stitches. So when I did the second chart of bubbles, I put markers in about every 20 or so stitches, and I found it was much easier to keep track of what I was doing. Between the two rows of bubbles, there is a section of adorable little crabs and seahorses. I hope you can see something of them here. They will be clearer once the shawl is dressed. In these photos I've gotten up to the starfish chart. I've done about half of that chart. This is an easy shawl to do, and I think I'll enjoy having it. I'll post more photos of this when I'm done.

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	This is my Peacock Feathers shawl. This is a design by Fiddlesticks Knitting. I made it out of Jaggerspun Zephyr, a wool and silk laceweight yarn. It measures 100" across the top edge and 48" down the back, a little larger than I expected, but it was so easy, I guess I relaxed some while I knitted it. I got four ounces of yarn, and I have a lot of it left over. The color is a peacock color, and I found the color really bled when I washed it. However, I detect no change in the color of the shawl, really.

	Above are two more shots of the shawl. There are lots of feathers in this design. I thought I was never going to get past the small feathers at the center back of the shawl. <G> They do make a nice lacy, light shawl, though, when it's done. To the left is a shot of the center back tip. This shawl took me five weeks to knit.
	This is the shawl I'm working on now. It's the Creatures of the Reef shawl by Fiddlesticks Knitting. I'm using exactly the same yarn here that I did for the Forest Path stole, Jaggerspun Zephyr. I've become a real fan of that yarn. It's light and quite soft. I bought a cone of this color, and I'm still whittling away at it. This is an easy pattern, and it seems to go faster and faster as you start the shawl at the bottom and decrease as you go up. Naturally, this is still not dressed, so it's not at its prettiest. This shawl is garter stitched, so it looks really small here.
	Around the bottom edge of the shawl are lovely little seashells. This makes a pretty scalloped edge on it. These are easy enough, but there comes a point where all the fullness of the seashells is decreased out. You knit 13 together to do that. Once you get past that row, the rest of it is easy--or at least, it has been so far.
	Immediately above the seashells, there's a row of bubbles. Now, Dorothy doesn't tell you to put a lot of markers in that row, but I found that I needed them to facilitate the counting of the stitches. So when I did the second chart of bubbles, I put markers in about every 20 or so stitches, and I found it was much easier to keep track of what I was doing. Between the two rows of bubbles, there is a section of adorable little crabs and seahorses. I hope you can see something of them here. They will be clearer once the shawl is dressed. In these photos I've gotten up to the starfish chart. I've done about half of that chart. This is an easy shawl to do, and I think I'll enjoy having it. I'll post more photos of this when I'm done.