Adventures of a Desi Knitter

This project is also from Meg Swansen’s Gathering of Lace book, and it’s called the Shaped Triangle Shawl. I swatched for it and it is now awaiting its turn behind the Faux Russian Stole. The yarn is Jaggerspun Superfine Merino laceweight, and it is gorgeous and soft. It’s for my mother-in-law, who specifically requested a black triangle shawl. Who knows when she’s going to be able to wear it, though.
There are some lovely finished pictures of this shawl here and here.
I got into this lace lunacy over the summer, and joined the "laceforallseasons" groups on Yahoo. It’s a lot of fun, but now I want to work with some worsted yarn….

But I also have some gorgeous rose coloured yarn from Malabrigo, and it will hopefully someday get made into the Frost Flowers and Leaves Shawl which I totally fell in love with.

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This is my second pattern from the wonderful book A Gathering of Lace edited by Meg Swanson. The first was the circular Feather & Fan shawl which I made with Malabrigo handpaintedyarn. The Russian stole is a very simple pattern, but I am modifying it. The suggested length and width are 24" by 72" but I added a couple of repeats to make it wider and will probably make it a lot longer as well. The challenge is going to be sticking to it, and not getting bored with the repeats. But it’s not so complex that I cannot watch a film while knitting, so hopefully it will be done this winter.

Isn’t the yarn a lovely colour? It’s Brown Sheep Naturespun Fingering, in some kind of berry shade. I bought a cone, and will probably end up using about 2000 yards out of the 2800 for the shawl. The needle size is 5.

I love the way the pattern includes the edging with the main body, but I have no clue why this is called a "faux" Russian stole.

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So I’ve succumbed. Am trying this out for thirty days. Let’s see what happens…
But if it lasts, it will be a blog mainly about knitting.
It might also include complaints about my students from time to time.
Or photos and descriptions of places visited.

But mostly, this is intended as a yarn about yarn.

But first.

Desi? Not a short form for Designer. Ho ho. Not at all.

"Desi" in Indian / South Asian English, is a word for someone "from the country". It’s a term for "South Asian", or people from the Indian subcontinent, a word that folks from there use to refer to themselves. So, my profile is sort of self-explanatory.

Earlier, it also connoted "unsophisticated", but we’ll see about that!

Take a look around, check out my photo albums of finished projects, and I’d love to hear from folks.

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