Today, as I join up with
Tami's Amis' WIP Wednesday and Ginny's
Yarn-Along, I wonder: I frogged a whole border this weekend- does that mean I made progress on my project?
Story time!
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Here you can see how ruffly and wide my border *was* |
I'm working the
Juliana Wrap for the June CAL at
Crochet Shoulder Wrappers, as I mentioned previously. I was all set to finish the wrap for Friday, but that obviously didn't work out. I realized after I was nearly done with the border that I had worked too many stitches into the ch6 spaces at the end of the mesh, making the border REALLY long and quite ruffly. I persevered, convinced that I could finish it....
Until I was getting precariously close to the end of my 4th and last ball of yarn. I frogged back 2 or 3 rows... still not enough. Friday evening, I started working on a second Juliana, trying a different shape for the 1st section, even though I knew I should finish the pink one first. But the rows were still too long.
Saturday night I decided that I was going to run out of yarn. And I really wanted to make the tassels that were included in the Juliana pattern. So I ripped. And ripped. And got 2 balls of yarn out of that border. I took 2 rows of the mesh section out, and started the border section again. As of today, I only have a few rows left, and I haven't started the 4th ball yet.
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The border is much smaller here, and the wrap lays flat. |
I started working a second Juliana because I was attempting to make it narrower and more crescent shaped.
As you can see above, the first few rows are worked differently, making #2 nearly as long as #1, but quite a bit narrower. The yellow yarn is mostly the first section, with a row or 2 of mesh at the end. I will probably work one or 2 more rows of mesh before starting the border. The yarn, KnitPicks Telemark (I believe it's been discontinued), was a gift from my brother. He bought me 5 skeins, each a different color. I'm hoping that I will be able to finish without adding a 4th color.
That's all I have today! Stay tuned for both of these to be finished within the next week or so!
Those are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI think lacy shawls are the finest things going! What better to keep the chill of in the evening or in an overly air conditioned building. It's a great pattern that I'm definitely checking out. I'll also be stopping by Rav's crochet shoulder wrapper group, it sounds right up my alley. And yes, frogging does count as progress - at least at my house!
ReplyDeleteI printed this pattern and so want to start. Yours are looking lovely - sorry about the un- hooking.
ReplyDeleteLike the multicoloured one and look forward to the finish.
Enjoy hooking them up.