Tina Shawl
It's a very well written pattern...not difficult to execute yet very impressive. It's so lacy and feminine.
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Fiddlesticks Knitting
Dorothy Siemens
90% Merino, 10% Cashmere Blend
135g
none
4.5 mm
2/19 wc
eBay
Linen
approx 72 on the diagonal
25 Dec 2004
24 Aug 2005
Jan 10-6 Aug 2005
TBD
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folded on the diagonal
So graceful and elegant... Tina is a shetland style shawl. While not a difficult knit, Tina is a lace knitting, there is no rest
row where you work in purl or knit.. Tina is also charted. If your chart reading skills aren't that good or you are relatively new to
lace work, I strongly urge you to use stitch markers. This isn't a difficult pattern, but it does require some concentration.
A picture is worth a thousand words. I present to you Tina, finished blocked and thorough done. Celebrations should be in order for completing the torturous edging. But know what? I miss her now that she's done.
First, you knit the center panel, then you pick-up stitches and knit outwards. This technique is far less fiddly than knitting the center
outwards from a cast on. The fir panel is pretty common shetland center panel design.
Close-up of the center panel (fir stitch)
The side panels are fairly easy to memorise once you have the initial design layed out.
Side panel
These thingies were a pain the rump. I kept screwing them up and even when blocked, I'm not entirely satisfied with the
symmetry... or rather lack of symmetry.
Close-up of the slightly off-balanced thingy
Once I got this memorised, I was roaring away. There were 96 repeats to do and I was pacing myself to do 6-8 per sitting.
By the last side, I was making good pace.
I think that this is the van dyke lace edging
She's so wide, I needed 2 chairs to spread her out on.
She is a big shawl.
Folded in half
Tina reclining in front of the television
The end
I took Tina with me to the Kew Horticultural show and she nabbed the first prize in the Knitted article entry. The push to finish her
in August was to enter her in the show.
Tina goes to the Kew Horticulture show with me
and get this, won first prize!!! The judge's comments were 'excellent example of fine lace knitting, well done'
pretty amazing, don't you think?
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