Metamorphosis, or how a Shaped Triangle became a Swallowtail Shawl

§ November 7th, 2006 § Filed under Shaped Triangle turned Swallowtail Shawl § 15 Comments

Memories of a 6th standard (or thereabouts) biology lesson.

Caterpillar, or Just off the Needles, Finally:

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Chrysalis, a.k.a. the twenty-minute soak:

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And finally, the butterfly:                               

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Perched on a branch, and on a wall:                                                               

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Project specs:

Pattern: Started out as Shaped Triangle shawl from Gathering of Lace, but got sick of that pattern and ended it with the Swallowtail pattern from Fall 06 Interweave knits, almost a year after starting it. The saga of this shift is here. 

Yarn: Jaggerspun Superfine Merino 100% wool (this is the full merino cousin of Zephyr). I have no idea how much, but a ton of it is still left on the cone. Body on size 3s, edging on size 4s.

This shawl is so difficult to photograph! It’s light and wispy and soft, and I hope my MIL likes it. It turned out a little smaller than I’d anticipated (60" wingspan x 30" depth before blocking and 80 and 40 after blocking).

I wrapped it around myself today and it should be okay, I think. But I’m not so sure I like laceweight shawls, actually. I find I need the weight of the shawl as much as the actual wool to be warm. I think fingering, or sportweight might be my preferred weight, and that would allow me to use larger needles and make the fabric firm too; the airiness of the lacy fabric is gorgeous to look at and is surely warm as well, but I don’t know why, it feels a tad too wispy to me.

ED: [i]sorry, i had to tweak a few times to fix the damn formatting[/i]

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