Some of you who are members of Ravelry or who read a lot of knitting blogs may recognise this as the Swallowtail Shawl by Evelyn A. Clark (a free pattern on Ravelry). I deviated from the written pattern by not adding the nupps (a type of small bobble) in the Lily of the Valley pattern (the denser knitting towards the edges of the shawl) and by adding an extra five repeats of the Budding Lace pattern to the body of the shawl.
I knitted it Misti Alpaca – 100% baby alpaca in a hand-painted, lace-weight yarn. It's the first time I've knitted with alpaca and I was a little surprised at its fuzziness. It is very light and very soft. It’s hard to see the colour in my photos but it’s a blend of charcoal and denim-blue. The Misti Alpaca website (from where I copied this photo) says the colorway is “Ashes”.
When I finished knitting the shawl, I was very disappointed about how small it was but I forgot to allow for the magic of blocking. It is 140cm (4ft 8in) across the top and therefore quite a nice size now!
And I still have 48g of the 100g I started with!
fabulous!
ReplyDeletelooks lovely. I have just finished one of these as well. I had thought it would be a little larger when blocked, but still a lovely shawl.
ReplyDeleteso it didn't even take a full 100g! Well that's fabulous. Probably would have used more if you'd done the nupps but they're absolutely not vital are they? The pattern is gorgeous without them.
ReplyDeleteA desreving winning entry. Nice shape and colour and SOFT! WM
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful....I love the soft color and lace effect of the stitches. Super job.
ReplyDeleteStellar knitting-blocking is really the magic of lace knitting! I can't believe you even have a little left over!
ReplyDeleteBrsutiful!
ReplyDeleteIt is so lovely! And only 52g of yarn used! Amazing, really!
ReplyDeleteThat's beautiful, I don't know that my shawl will open up nearly as much when it's blocked but hopefully It will
ReplyDeleteIt's gorgeous Lynne, well done! Gotta love the alpaca with the high length of yarn to low weight of yarn factor :-)
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh...that is unbelievably beautiful. You are so talented!!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful, Lynne! You are one talented knitter! Awesome!!!!
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful. I love that lacy pattern.
ReplyDeleteOoh, so very pretty!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. No you have to go out somewhere nice for dinner and wear it:)
ReplyDeleteThat is some of the most delicate and exquisite knitting I have ever seen. Absolutely gorgeous.
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