Kiri, blocked and ginormous
It's done and it's huge! 34 inches long and 74 inches wide! I wasn't planning to make it that big -- this was only 11 repeats of the main pattern. It barely fit on the bed when I blocked it (using Yarn Harlot's lace blocking method). Fortunately I am told that the shawl doesn't look ridiculous on me.
The scalloped edges didn't come out very scalloped, but I'm okay with that. I went up a needle size to US 8 on row 11 of the edging, then did row 12 on size 10's, and bound off very loosely with the 10's, but I guess it still wasn't as loose as it could have been. During row 11 I also added irridescent off-white seed beads to what would become the points of the shawl, more or less following instructions I found on the Kiri Shawl Knitalong Yahoo Group.Today I will see how the shawl looks with my wedding gown.
Kiri
Started: April 17 (after many false starts)
Finished: May 9 (blocked May 11)
Pattern: From All Tangled Up
Yarn: Rowan KidSilk Night, color Starlight, 3 skeins (very little left over)
Needles: US 7, 8, 10 circs (Denise -- the 40" and 52" cords I bought on eBay really came in handy!)
posted by cdc at 11:33 AM
1 Comments:
Wow, it looks really good! I just finished my Kiri, I cheated though and used Knitpicks Shine and 8mm needles. I have some KSH to make one with, I was having a bit of trouble keeping up with the pattern, so I decided to do a practice Kiri on a more forgiving yarn. And bigger needles!
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