Spring Things Shawl
Scene: Kelly hanging the shawl on a nail, awkwardly trying to finagle it to snap a good photo. Then, a sudden realization that the shawl sticks perfectly to the porch brick!
Pattern: Spring Things Shawl, by Susan Lawrence
Yarn: Tess superwash merino laceweight, in super-bleedy red
Pretty, huh? It’s a fairly small shawl, about 50 inches across the top. I may have felted the yarn a wee bit as I rinsed the yarn for the billionth time, but it’s still a good shoulder-warming size.
I ended up working 4 additional pattern repeats of the body pattern, but omitted the last few rows because I ran out of yarn and was too lazy to dip into the second skein. I finished the last edging chart and thought I was home free yarn-wise, but there were a few additional rows to knit, plus a bind-off setup row and the BO itself. I think I cut out 4 ending rows, so my points aren’t as pointy as they could be. I’m happy with their pointiness, though.
Besides that issue (and the bleeding saga), the pattern was well written and easy to follow. And so pretty. I totally love the edging chart.
Because I’m unable to knit a pattern without fiddling with it, I modified the body pattern to flow into the edging, rather than having a distinct line as in the pattern photo. I did this as follows:
- Copy chart B. Take the pattern repeat of chart A (in the box) and paste it onto the lower-left corner of the pattern repeat of chart B. You’ll end up pasting this four times, you’ll see where to do so – two of the repeats are in red boxes, the others are to the right of the red boxes.
- Convert all of the purl stitches in rows 1 and 3 of the modified chart B to knit stitches.
- In row 5 of the modified chart B, replace the k2tog with sl1-k2-psso, and replace the ssk with k3tog. This sounds backwards, but is not – the triple decreases will slope in the same direction as the outer decreases. Only replace the stitches in the pattern repeat section, not along the center line and edges.
Work the modified chart B once, then two repeats of the pattern chart B.
Some nupps are not like the others. Yikes, I didn’t notice this until I uploaded the photos!
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Wow, the shawl ended up being really beautiful. That color is amazing, despite the bleeding drama. Congratulations on such a gorgeous shawl.
Gorgeous shawl! Your mad shawl knitting skillz – impressive as usual :)
The shawl is stunning. I love, love the color you used. Beautiful work!
Lovely work! I don’t see any glaring nupp irregularities, either. :)
Stunning photos! They show off the shawl in the best possible way! Beautiful job :)
Pretty indeed. I’d sure put up with turning pink to wear such a lovely garment. Way to go!
Nice mods – I like it a lot! You did a great job.
The shawl is spectacular! And I LOVE that first photo, so cool!
Wow Kelly, so beautiful. I also LOVE the view from your front porch, what a cool lawn you have! Where do you live?
Oh sigh. Now I need to make this shawl too – yours is simply too gorgeous! Luckily I am a weak yarnaholic and there are two new orders of laceweight winging their way to me.
Thanks for the info on your modification. I think I’ll do it that way too. I love the way your edging blends into the body.
That is SO pretty!
Oh my. That is truly gorgeous. It should be perfect for keeping off the air conditioned chill, too.
It’s absolutely gorgeous! I love the color too. Just perfect! You have some amazing knitting skills.
Ohh, I have some of this yarn. That is stunning.
I want, I want!
i like the nupps/bobbles being mirror images of each other. definitely a design feature! :o)congrats!
Amazing job with the border transition! Oh, and the change in nupp patterning looks like it was intentional. You made those nupps your own!
What a beautiful shawl. I LOVE your modification! It looks stunning.
Very pretty! And I don’t see any nupp issues…
beautiful…just beautiful
Lovely!
So now we see it in all it’s glory! I love photos with the light streaming through lace. So pretty!
So beautiful! I love the colour and the nupps and the photos! Oh, and the lawn too! :-)
Beautiful, fantastic knitting. x
that is just beautiful – the way the light goes thorough it makes all the details stand out! love the mismatched nupps at the end…a nice personal “design element” :)
It’s such a shame that it bleeds – it’s so lovely! Luckily, it will look smashing with black. Are you sleeping with it? I would sleep with it. It’s that good.
Were you the person looking for a 24 inch size 3 circular? I found mine if you still need it, it’s an addi. I’d be happy to drop it off for you, just drop me an email.
Jenny
wow! it’s beautiful!
Absolutely stunning photos and a beautiful shawl.
Lauren
All I can say is WOW!
It’s gorgeous! And I had to look several times before I saw the difference in the nupps. Since the different treatment appears in a whole row, I consider it a feature, not a bug. :)
man, i have no idea how i have missed reading your blog all this time. that is fab! lovely, lovely number.
don’t feel obligated to reply to me. i’m just amazed that i’ve missed you all this time so i’ll spend my morning on a conference call, catching up on your most splendid blog.
Love it! Love the colour and the changes you made.
I’m about to start this shawl, and so I’ve charted it like you explained.
Just one question…did you only change the purl stitches in rows 1 and 3, not in 2,4,5 and 6? thanks and again, fabulous shawl!