A simple 10 stitch repeat is the rest of the shawl before the bind off. I’m loving the gradient and the sparkles! Cashmere & merino, this shawl is HUGE and I hope to get a lot of use out of it. I think it would look fantastic paired with a little black dress, if we ever get through this pandemic.
This Silver Bell Sweater has been in time-out since December. If you’ll notice where my fingers are, there’s three dropped stitches right there. It runs along a V-neck collar. I didn’t notice these dropped stitches until it was much too late and the entire piece was finished. I’ve been meaning to frog it since December, but instead I put it in a time out and forgot about it. I was furious at myself for having dropped the stitches. I put so much work into it, only to have it ruined.
I do have some options. I’ve been trying to decide which one is best. I could frog the front of the shirt (the front and back are joined at the shoulders with a 3 point bind off) and then re-knit the front. I think this is probably my best bet. I could frog the entire piece. I could try to pick up the stitches and attach them somehow (since the piece is finished, I have no idea how this would be accomplished without adding extra yarn to ‘tie’ it off to). I think my best chances are to un-do the three point bind off at the shoulders, and frog to just past the dropped stitches, and see where I sit at. Then once I can access the situation from a better vantage, I can decide how to move forward.
The yarn is amazing, and I was really looking forward to wearing this sweater ages ago. It’s a shame that it hasn’t worked out at all. I figure the sweater is just cursed.
It’s really hard to get good pictures of shawls while they’re being knit. They’re all bunched up on the needles, the cloth doesn’t lay the way you want it to, and the lace doesn’t open at all. That being said, I’m about 80% of the way through my Stillness shawl, and I’m VERY excited to perhaps even get it completed within the next two weeks (end of March, if all goes as planned).
It’s always so hard to take pictures of the details of this shawl. The yarn is full of sparkles, a lovely gradient, and there’s a lot of lace hidden within it. Hopefully I’ll be done it soon so I can show it off.
My ‘Stillness’ shawl is coming along. It’s hard to show it off while it’s on the needles, but the gradient is moving and I’m about 70% done so far. I can’t wait to finish it and block it to open up all the lace portions.
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