I've decided to post the pattern for the shawl I'm making on my website even if it hasn't been finished yet: it's easy enough that I'm pretty confident in it even after just a small sampler.
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I've decided to post the pattern for the shawl I'm making on my website even if it hasn't been finished yet: it's easy enough that I'm pretty confident in it even after just a small sampler.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •I have some carbon fiber ones I thought were the bees knees when I bought them, but there was always that little edge where the needle connects to the cable that the yarn gets caught on - I don't know where I found the ChiaGoo, but I bought a pair on ebay because "they were available", and they have become my favorites - no edge!
Anyway, the shawl looks great - very lacey. not something I would knit, but I like the idea of it.
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in reply to mudflap • •As for the shawl, yes, the whole idea was to make something *very* lacey :)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •I do like bamboo, but not for this type of work - I like them for DPN's - seems like stuff doesn't fall off as easily with bamboo DPN's compared to steel or plastic.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •One third of the shawl has been knit!
this picture is from a couple of days ago, but it isn't that different from how it looks like today
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •I've then calculated the square root of a few nice round fractions to know how many stitches there are on the half-needle when I've done that fraction of the total number of stitches / surface.
And then I tried to weight the yarn cake at those points to estimate how much the final shawl will weight / how much yarn I'm going to use.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •1/6 → 112 g
1/5 → 111 g
1/4 → 107 g
1/3 → 105 g
and that, well, it's very much not linear at all.
I suspect that the problem is that the error from the scale is big enough compared to the values.
OTOH, I think I can already be confident that the result will be “pretty light”
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