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The process of choosing a new knitting project is always an interesting time. There’s so much potential there, especially when you aren’t knitting to some constraint or another (using up stash, only using the needles you have, to a deadline, etc.). I’ve spent dozens of hours poring over Ravelry looking for my next project. I’ve also had projects fall into my lap, via a variety of means.
The new project falls into the latter category. I was up at Cloverhill last Thursday for weekly knit night, and I was working on my Southern Skies shawl (which is, of course, a companion to the Celestarium shawl). One of the regulars commented on how much fun I seemed to be having with the series, and I agreed. I said this was particularly interesting, since I was terrified of combining beads with my knitting before I started. She then said she had the pattern for me.
In comes Shipwreck. I’m so sold. It’s gorgeous, and includes five thousand beads! (No. Seriously. 5,000.)
I have a shopping cart full of yarn choices (right color, right weight, enough yardage in stock), and I figure I’ll pick my beads after I get to know the color better. You don’t use the beads until you’re halfway done with the shawl, anyway.
Now, I just have to finish the projects I told myself I’d finish before I started a new project. These include a Clara cardigan for myself, the aforementioned Southern Skies, a sweater vest for Shamamama, a cowl for Jenn, and a cowl for Missy, as well as a cowl that I’m making for my brioche class. So, another couple of weeks of knitting before I can start on the new project. Hmmm. That puts me smack dab in the middle of my trip to Seattle. What to do, what to do?
So excited!
Just the fact that you refer to it as a stash says everything.
5,000 beads?!? That makes me want to cry just reading it. I can’t wait to see pics!
Oh, can you explain the circle shawl to me? I’ve always seen triangular shawls, not round.
Michelle: Is it the wearing or the knitting of circular shawls that has you interested? For wearing, you can either kind of fold a tab down at the top, and use that as your long edge, or simply fold it in half and wear it like that. For knitting, you start with a teeny number of stitches, and increase out (generally evenly) at set points in the shawl. For instance, the Celestarium shawl that I did started on 9 stitches, and had 6 rows where you doubled the numbered of stitches, resulting in the final size.
It was the wearing. I have just never seen a circular shawl before. I’ve only seen rectangle or triangle.