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Thursday, April 21, 2011

On to the next one!

It's official.  I ditched the shawl pattern I was desperately trying to make work.  I should have walked away from it earlier, but apparently I like banging my head against the wall.  I've since moved on to a new design that I've swatched not once, but twice.  The first swatch was good, but the second swatch is even better.  My swatches were done in two different weights of yarn (DK and fingering) and I'm not sure which one I like better.  I might even contemplate using a lace weight for this shawl, but I'm not too worried about figuring that part out yet.  I'm just really happy right now and it has given me a sense of peace, if that makes sense.  I think that is from finally throwing in the towel on the original pattern and finding success with something else.

This design is Arthur approved
I've also decided that I dislike rectangular swatching for shawls because it doesn't give me a good enough idea of what the triangle shawl is going to look like.  I could love the rectangular swatch, but hate the triangle swatch.  And I mean hate.  The triangle swatch is just such a different beast from the rectangular swatch.  For one, you have to deal with the increases and are there enough of them and if not what are you going to do.  Those increases are a pesky thing - necessary but also create headache (at least for me).  The increases almost always seems to create these patches of stockinette stitch, which I tend not to like.  Then there is the figuring out how to change that and so on.  This is why I don't like the rectangular swatches - you don't get an idea of how it is going to really look.  Sure, the rectangular swatch give you an idea of how stitches patterns are going to look and how they are going to flow together, but I can get that idea from a triangle swatch as well.  Okay, enough about that.

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