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| I love to see the pattern blossom after blocking. It looks so pretty!! |
To had to put a little bit of thinking on how to block the stole. I usually use the bed which is normally big enough to hold shawls but this time this stole was way to long. I had to add a little piece to the bed. To do so I used a foam matress and my new Ikea bobbin lace pillow. It worked pretty well.
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| Blocking: wires and pins make miracles! |
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| Grafting is like magic. It is barely possible to say where the grafting is. Isn't it? |
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| The liliac leaf pattern. The pattern has so much movement and that is thanks to the garter stitch frame around each leave. |
Blocking has become so much easier since I got the blocking wires. Holy blocking wires. They don't only make the hole process easier but also the result is a lot better. The straight borders become really straight and the scallops look a lot more beautiful!
Notes about the shawl:
* Body pattern: Liliac Leaf Pattern 1 from the book The Haapsalu Shawl.
* Edge pattern: Taken from Madli Shawl from Knitted Lace of Estonia.
* 3 1/2 balls of Loðband (icelandic lace yarn) Each ball is 50g.
* Needles: 5.0 for casting on and off and 4.0 for knitting.
* Casted on 100 stitches using the knitted on cast on technique (my favourite for shawls).
* Made 34 repeats of the 16 rows leaf pattern slipping the first stitch with the yarn in front of every row.
* Made two edges that I grafted to the each end of the body. When grafting watch the tension, it is ver easy to have an extremely tense graft with will be a problem when it comes to blocking.
*Final measurements: 62 x 230cm
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| The hole thing :) |
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| It is too bright outside but I guess that it is still possible to see the pattern. |
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| Folded, ready to be packed and given :) |
I am very, very, very, very happy with the result. It exceeded all my expectations :)
