As promised.......My Folk Festival project.....
Revontuli-shawl. Knitted with Kauni Effektgarn Yarn, 100 % wool, colourway EQ - 150 grams. Needle size 8 (5.00mm)
Knit Picks Optional Interchangeable Harmony Wood Circular Knitting Needle Tips (love these needles).
It is a
free pattern offered by
AnneM from Finland. I would love to read her blog, but of course it's in Finnish. I use the Babel program for translation, but there's no option for converting Finnish to English. Is there another way to translate it?
I fell in love with how this pattern shows off the slow colour changes that Kauni yarn is noted for. I was having a bit of difficulty understanding how the pattern sets up on Chart 1, but then found out that I was doing my left, and right leaning increases wrong. I also put in stitch markers after each of the pattern repeats, which is a total of eight. It helped me focus on my position in a row especially when knitting the 'yarn over' rows. Each row in the pattern is very easy to memorize, and it was a great project to bring along for the weekend at the Folk Music Festival.
The next thing I'm excited about is this.......
It's going to come in handy when blocking projects. I was surfing some knitting blogs and saw this product, unfortunately I can't remember what blog it was, but it's such a good idea.
It's like puzzle pieces when attaching them together.
Add another square......
And ta daaa....
(This isn't an actual blocking....I grabbed one of my shawls for display purpose.)
I never would of thought of using these square foam carpeted interlocking squares for blocking....I have to thank whoever it was that blogged about this as it's saving my ironing board cover from my blocking pins. I'm only showing four squares being used here, but there's two more that will expand it up to 24 sq. ft. I purchased this at Rona for $19.97 Cdn.
