Projects for the New Year?

snipped-for-privacy@actcom.co.il wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@t1g2000pra.googlegro ups.com:

hi Mirjam, here's a picture of a finished Sleeves in your Pi shawl:

's a variation on Elizabeth Zimmerman's Pi shawl, with sleeves added to keep it in place. i'm making 2 of them. the one for my mom is acrylic because i want to make care as simple as possible for my elderly parents. mine is a nice merino/mohair, because most of the time i remember not to throw the nice yarn in the washer ;)lee

I am planning to do the Diamond Fantasy shawl, and more socks. I love socks!

Higs, Katherine

Neither I am Sandi from Ontario ( Guelph)

I am planning to do the Diamond Fantasy shawl, and more socks. I love socks!

Higs, Katherine

I love the idea of making socks more than the reality. I make the first one and have a hard time making the second one. I need to work on that. :-)

What does the Diamond Fantasy Shawl look like?

lisa

I've finished one project, the flower motif shawl from Evelyn Clark's booklet, and started another, the Angel Lace Shawl, also by Evelyn Clark. The first used Claudia's hand-painted fingering weight merino in Tropicana and the second uses Knit Picks Gossamer in Caribbean.

I've got a bunch of WIPs that I need to get back to. It's just that lace shawls are so much fun! Ravelry members can see my projects at:

Mary the Digital Knitter

I've done two Diamond Fantasy shawls and I just love the pattern. Once you get the rhythm it's really easy to knit. I don't knit socks at all but I knit almost all of my lace shawls out of fingering weight yarn.

Mary

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Lee if you add sleeves to the Pi Shawl it becomes a kind of Deseret Coat , or a Sharug with a very wide underpart ,,, how do you decided at what part you add the sleeves,,,, ? And wouldn`t it be less complicated to just make a wider Shrug ,, or the wonderful shrug + fronts that appeared in one of the mags, which i knitted for a friend ,? mirjam

So your Feet are always Warm , Now i know why you are sooooo brave !!!! mirjam :>:>:>

snipped-for-privacy@actcom.co.il wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@e25g2000prg.googlegr oups.com:

the Sleeves in Your Pi shawl is a pattern. it appeared in Knitter's magazine a couple years ago. it's more like a round cardigan style sweater. the sleeves are off centered towards the top of the circle the collar can be turned up t so that the shawl has rounded edges on the bottom & a wide rounded collar. it's something one can wrap up in & it has sleeves to keep it from sliding. i can't say i've seen any shrug patterns i really like yet. most are more like sleeves with a narrow strip connecting them. might be useful if i wore short sleeves to someplace air-conditioned, but otherwise don't really fit my climate or wardrobe :) my SIL has asked me to knit her a shrug though, so i'll be looking at more patterns. maybe i'll find one i like. lee

Here's a link:

spent about two years looking for one that I really liked. NowI have it, and think that I may have to start over, as I have fooledsomething up in the pattern. :-(Higs, Katherine

Really easy to knit? Well, I am about to frog it, because, somehow, I lost a couple of stitches, and the pattern disappears on one side. If I am goint to do this, it is going to be done right! I adore the shawl, and am doing it in a fingering weight - colour Blueberry.

Higs, Katherine

my first project is to finish any thing started before 010108. then look for that special something. I crochet for others and now its my turn. My 17 yr old graduates and her school color afghan is done, but not the reversible pillow sham. bj

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and if you look before and after that article you can see a lot of photos of Diamond Fantasy in progress. That wasn't the only part I frogged, just the biggest. It's not one of those patterns you can drop a few stitches down to the error and then knit it back up.

As I said earlier, once you get the rhythm it gets a lot better. I hardly had to tink even a few stitches in the second Diamond Fantasy.

Mary "Don't ask me about the Bigfoot circular shawl, though"

Oh, pretty. I did the first one in Blue Lagoon merino/tencel fingering weight and the second in natural merino/silk fingering weight. I liked the colored one much better but the natural one was a christening shawl. You can see both on my blog, url in the signature.

I had to do my share of frogging too, until I got the rhythm. It's a really difficult pattern until all at once you get it. Suddenly you see where the yarnovers have to go and which way you do the decrease and it's just like magic. However, it took me half a shawl and a certain amount of frogging to get to that point.

Fortunately fingering yarn is easier to frog than some other yarns, like mohair lace weight, so we both gave ourselves an advantage.

Mary "Not eager to knit lace in mohair"

I've started the Hanami, and frogged it twice. While the pattern isn't difficult, you have to be very careful with your yarn overs. I'm thinking lifelines are necessary on this project

I've finished the 32 rows on the first chart, with 6 more repeats to go. I can't remember how many other charts there are, I'd have to go look.

I still think I'm going to like this shawl when it's done even if it's starting out to be a challenge. It's certainly not as challenging (yet) as the Peacock Feathers, so I think if one can do that one, almost anything is possible.(grin)

Shelagh

Oh, thank you, Mary! I feel much better now. I am about to rip it out, because I simply do not have the correct # of stitches on it, and I can't be bothered tinking lace. I will burn in hell for the thoughts I would have while doing that! LOL

Higs, Katherine

I don't think I would even try to knit lace in mohair! What would be the point, after all?

Higs, Katherine

So true!