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 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 • •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 :)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •no, they are steel and coated steel cable: 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.
ChiaoGoo Regular Red Stainless Steel Circular Knitting Needles (All Sizes) | eBay
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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'' • •Using the method where the beginning of the shawl is the swatch, I estimated that I probably want to keep #knitting 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 β 112 g
1/5 β 111 g
1/4 β 107 g
1/3 β 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 βpretty lightβ
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Unknown parent • •very good question :(
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