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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Rose Lace Stole

I cast on for the Rose Lace Stole by Susanna IC last week.  I got to row 5 or 6 and for some reason decided to count my number of stitches, as a check I suppose.  Well, it's a good thing that I did because I had the wrong number of stitches!!!  Argh!  I had 105 instead of 115.  And I think that I know how this happened.  I was casting on using the provisional (invisible) cast on and counted my stitches and had 115. Now, being my obsessive self I recount the stitches (before starting knitting) and count 115 and then went to myself "Get rid of 10 stitches and you are ready to start knitting!"  Not sure why I thought that, but that is exactly what I did.  I took off 10 stitches and was on my way knitting.  I'm just glad that after only 5 or 6 rows that I decided to recheck the stitch count.  I've since cast on (this time the right number of stitches) and am happily knitting away.  

The malabrigo lace is wonderful to work with, though I'm questioning my sanity working with it on metal addi turbos.  The "geometric lace" is easily memorized for the body of the shawl and I think this is going to be my go to project for knitting groups.  This is also the first pattern I have ever knit from Interweave Knits, despite having a subscription to this magazine for the past couple of years.  Oh wait, that isn't true!  I've knit the Swallowtail Shawl, but I'm not sure I own that actual issue that was published in.

In other news, I finally finished up the pattern for my Chincoteague Shawl.  I have instructions for both charted and written knitting.  It was a bit of work to get it all together, but definitely worth it.  I learned a lot during the process, but I know that I have a lot more to learn.  One thing I'm worried about is that I didn't have test knitters for the written knitting instructions, so I hope that anyone that knits it that way contacts me if they run into problems.  Since the pattern is for free, I'm not overly worried, but next time I will definitely take the time to make sure I have test knitters for both types of knitting instructions.  

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