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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

@zephyr updates on the shawl will happen (slowly :) ) in this thread (and I'll @ the group when there are pictures or other significant news)

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in reply to mudflap

nope, knitPro Karbonz (from their sampler pack: I love them but I don't love them more than twice as much as their other metal needles which costs half as much :D )
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

lol. interesting.

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.
in reply to mudflap

The ChiaGoo are bamboo, right? I don't really like bamboo or wood needles, they aren't my thing, so I don't know much about them.

As for the shawl, yes, the whole idea was to make something *very* lacey :)
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

no, they are steel and coated steel cable: https://www.ebay.com/itm/122489418661

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.
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''

Using the method where the beginning of the shawl is the swatch, I estimated that I probably want to keep # until I have about 150 stitches in the first half of the needle (i.e. 301 total stitches), as that should correspond to something around 1.5 meters on the long edge.

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''

And this is where everything went wrong, as I got the following measurements:

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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Elena ``of Valhalla''
very good question :(

I can't see if # (what my instance uses instead of mastodon) is adding a list of hidden @s, I can only see that you liked the initial post of the thread.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Apparently it's by design, to prevent the issues with broken threads that happen between mastodon servers, and I don't think that there is a way to remove one person from the list of @s :(

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

ok, maybe I've found a way to be able to remove individuals from the list of mentions (I hope)

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