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I've been mulling over what shape to make my "summer of weddings" shawl, and it burst upon me: triangular!! I've always thought triangles or crescents the classiest of shawls. For color: silver, maybe light and dark both?  Unfortunately, I also am inspired to design several other shawls with some of the yarn I have on hand.  I have one in mind that is reminiscent of fish net, one that had a trinity stitch pattern and I'll be writing up the pattern for the "Rejected Wedding" cowl or poncho or whatever it will be called. It's based off a mohair bias loop, but with lace.  Settling on what to do first when I want to do it all at once is proving paralyzing. Plus what yarn to play "test the pattern!"game. I finished one shawl! I will type up the pattern soon, but for those of you who want to get the materials (if anyone reads this) it's done with 3 skeins of "Mecha" from Malibrigo, 2 in a green and one in a different color. Picture ...

I'm trying to design a crescent shawl (never having knitted one before, so I may be making obvious mistakes) that has short rows of different stitch patterns in a kind of swinging pattern.something kind of like: Hopefully you get the basic idea. Well, this is what I've done: The stitch patterns are totally different gauges on my sample, so that's gotta be fixed. I'm having fun with increasing and decreasing stitch numbers while maintaining patterns.  That's all for now, happy stitching!

I'm working on a wedding shawl for my best friend's wedding, and designed a spiffy number out of Mecha in a triangle (pics of both to come) and have been playing with Shawl Shaping, as I am designing a "Summer of Weddings" shawl! I have at least 4 weddings to attend this summer, and I am actually in 2 of them! I also had a bunch of my stuff photographed, (without props, so they look kind of odd) so I'll make a post with those pictures too! Right now, I'm thinking about making a recent shaped shawl shaped by making 4 yarn overs at the end of the right side row x times, followed by x number of 4 yarn overs at the beginning of the right side row. I hope to make a kind of series of recents within the crescent this way. I'm having trouble picking the yarn I want to use (in case it's a disaster) and the stitch patterns (in case it's a success and I finish it). Plus, I need to work on a paper about international ethics problems, guess which task I...