What is the matter with me?
OK. So yesterday I swatched for the Seta sweater and was all set to get started. What did I do? I started Lady Eleanor, the entrelac shawl from Scarf Style. I know she's been done to death, but I've always had my eye on her, and well, I've never done entrelac. And a customer came in who needed help with an entrelac tam, and I couldn't do jack. I couldn't even tell where she was in the pattern, which made me feel so alien, so unlike myself, I just wasn't sure what to do. So I grabbed the book, some Noro Silk Garden in color 217, and next thing you know: here comes Eleanor.
I'm about 1 and 1/2 skeins in (out of probably 10 or so), and so far loving it. I finally understand entrelac (not that there's too much to understand), and I've even taught myself to knit backwards so I don't have to deal with all that turning. Whew! Good stuff! Now what's my last big knitting frontier, you ask? Steeking. So not ready for that. Yet.
New project, baby!
posted by sarah / knot another hat @ 5:28 PM
3 Comments:
I've got that project in my stash -you make it look so easy! But first I must finish Marina,
Li
I just started this in noro silk garden. My question is: what size needle did you use? What's your gauge? Cuz I don't think I'll get 14 sts = 4" somehow.
Hi Isabel - I'm using 9s. I think I'm getting somewhere in the range of 2" per "block", which is 8 sts. So probably 14-16 sts=4". I'm not too worried about the gauge - I'm just hoping it's long enough at 9 balls so I can use the 10th for fringe... :)
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