your sea-bound coast, let your mountains dark and dreary be
Posted: June 23rd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: lace, projects: ishbel(s), scarves&shawls, srk on your toes bamboo, tanis fiber arts blue label, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: bamboo, craft, handmade, ishbel, knit, knits in progress, knitting, lace, purple, shawl, srk on your toes, yarn | 1 Comment »
I’m back! My trip to Nova Scotia was, quite possibly, the best vacation I’ve ever had, but it’s still nice to be back home. (With my kitten, who is extraordinarily needy after my absence. It’s getting a little over the top.)
As I mentioned before, I finished my first Ishbel fairly early on in the trip, but now that I’m back here where my SLR lives, I can show you good-quality photos of it. This is before blocking, but you can sort of see the lace pattern detail here, and the photos are remarkably colour-true: the yarn really is that purple.
I worked this up in the small size on 8mm needles instead of the suggested 4mm, which got me to the correct stitch gauge, and the yarn is SRK On Your Toes Bamboo, a 75/25 bamboo/nylon blend. I’ve never blocked bamboo before, but I have a sneaking suspicion it’s going to grow a lot.
The skein claims to have 328 yards in it, and I’d seen some Ravelry entries claiming to have knit the small-stockinette/large-lace variation of this shawl, with close to that amount of yarn, but about halfway through I realized I wouldn’t have enough for that and stuck to the small size, which I’m glad for – I have maybe 10m of yarn left over.
I’ve also started a second Ishbel, this one for myself. I’m working it in delicious, dyed-in-Canada wool from Tanis Fiber Arts, and it’s going just as quickly as the first one did. It looks like garbage, as all lace still on the needles does, but I swear it’s going to be cute.
Song of the Entry: Farewell to Nova Scotia (Listen)
Ooh, so pretty! They are going to look even more amazing blocked. Way to go!