An FO [Finished Object] & what's on my needle

I finished my shawl

les Abeilles

by Anne Hanson

and posted it to The Loopy Ewe website

prior to the deadline!!!!

You can read all about Camp Loopy on Sheri's blog.

I put my finished les Abeilles to soak 

and then  

with the help of a trio of Hubby's ham radio antennas

that I used as blocking wires

I was able to block it like crazy - stretching it like crazy so that the lacy pattern was shown off to it's very best.

Since then I've bought blocking wires from InSpinKnity

 I heard about on them on

The Knit Girllls videocast.

The fiberphile Tree Peony and The Loopy Ewe Solid Brick

colors

couldn't have matched any better if I had know what I was picking.

Both yarns were easy to knit with and feel wonderful after a soak and blocking.

Come on Cold Weather.

Soooooo,

since this shawl was a pretty easy knit

I'm giving it another try.

I using yarn that first begun it's life knitted as Pointelle

- - - you may remember Pointelle - - -

the dreaded sox from Hades 

until, of course, I MASTERED THEM ! !! !    

The yarn is Jojoland in Melody 100% superwash wool.

This shawl is in a triangle shape,

as you can see in the finished one above.

This photo shows the first part -

the lace edge portion just completed.

The center, pointy part of the shawl is at the center of my needle.

The two short ends at the left side and right side

are part of the long side of the triangle

- the neck edge.

Thus, 242 stitches are cast on

for the lace edge.

When the lace edge is complete the stitches have been decreased

to 168 stitches.  

The decreases provide the shaping for the V of the shawl.

The picot-looking edging along the top [long] edge

is knit right along with the body of the shawl.

The picot-looking edging - V below V - 

will continue across the neck edge to meet in the center.

I'll try to remember to take photos along the way

showing the effect the decreases

make to form the remainder of the triangle shape.

Nutz, a picture is worth a thousands words.

I'll post pics.

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With that, I'll want to wish everyone

Happy 4th of July !

hugs