Anyway, I took most of the summer off from the wheel. Between all the traveling and not having air conditioning during a rather uncomfortable summer, I didn't exactly feel inspired.
My first spinning project when I got back to treadiling was- Surprise!- a fine 2-ply laceweight.
I got a bit over 450 yards from 4 oz of roving. I decided to make the Annis Shawl from last Spring's issue of Knitty.
It's a great pattern. You cast on almost 400 stitches for the bottom edge, work the lace charts, and then the body of the shawl is just short rows.
The nuups were a pain in the ass, but I'm happy with the results.
The lace chart took me about a week to complete, and the short row body just a couple days. It blocked out really nice and large.
It's warm and lofty- a great fall layering piece.
The specs:
The Annis Shawl by Susanna IC. I used about 420 yards handspun laceweight alpaca from Winter's Gone Farm roving. I used US size 10 needles for a nice, loose cast on and the rest of the shawl was knitted on US size 8's.
Yea those Nupps are intense but it's a fun pattern otherwise. I'm wearing mine right now! Lovely spinning!
ReplyDeleteI love it! I always feel like shawls require thousands of yards of laceweight, but not so!
ReplyDeleteThe Bee - she likes to spin the laceweight. One day, I will update my blog with photos of all that I've spun this last year.
Hi. Lovely shawl. I'm just about to start mine. Which cast on method did u use? It's not specified in the pattern
ReplyDeleteOh, this was so long ago I don't remember specifically. I probably did a knitted cast on as I haven't used a long-tail in years, and when you are casting on hundreds of stitches it is really hard to estimate the right amount of yarn for your tail! I did go up a couple needles sizes for the cast on- I think that is essential to making sure you don't have a wonky, bunched-up shawl at the end.
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