Flying colors...
Ah, the colors! For someone who can’t put colors together, I sure love to watch how brilliantly other people do it. The interplay of hue and design in this piece is nothing short of stunning—even at this early stage.
The construction is no slouch, either. German short rows are a technique I’d heard of, but never tried. The unique treatment of the pivot stitch gets rid of that pesky space that always shows up in other short rows. It’s nearly invisible in this shawl.
It’s a technique worth learning, but one that is best acquired in video. I’d read the written instructions twice, but couldn’t quite picture how the pivot stitch was “pulled up” on top of the needle…until I managed to find a video. After that “Aha! So that’s what they mean” moment, it was smooth sailing, and I grinned with satisfaction of having added another tool to my knitter’s toolbox.
There are a lot of colors involved, but the nice thing about this project is that you’re only really working with two colors at a time, so the project—at least for now—is still nicely portable. That’s good, because I’m traveling this week. You don’t want to be near me if I have to travel without my knitting, but I don’t want to be lugging a big bag of yarn around, either.
Yes, the rows are getting longer, but I don’t yet mind. The stripes and nifty little starry polkadots of this section are too delightful to let me care.
1 comment:
I made one of those! It turned out well, although the small needles made it painful at times. You picked good colors.
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