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Aran Weight Lace Shawl

23 January 2009 by kessainstitches

A teeny bit of update here, lest this space becomes more of a weblog and less of a knitblog.

I’ve been knitting alot.. Just have lots of projects on the needles, working on one every now and then, and plotting planning many more. I think I had a mild case of startitis.. In the past 2 weeks alone, I’ve casted on for these (not in chronological order):

Cardigan for Arwen
Endpaper Mitts
Some fair-isle bulky cardigan I’m making up as I go along
A man’s jacket, request by the bf, making up as I go along as well
A vest, making up as I go along
Hemlock blanket in a dk weight yarn
Fetching fingerless mitts
Lace shawl in aran weight yarn

7 WIPs.. It was 8 yesterday but I finished 1 project just now so its 7. The project I finished is this:

Can anyone guess what shawl it is? Another hint..

If you still can’t guess, here is a blatantly obvious hint..

Kiri Lace Shawl in Cashsoft Aran
Yarn: Cashsoft Aran in Savanah, 2 x 50g
Pattern: Kiri by Polly Outhwaite
Modifications: Substituted with an aran weight yarn, did only 4 repeats of chart 2 (ended up with 5 ‘leaves’ on each side) and knitted 1st row of chart 3 2 times.
Afterthoughts: I like lace in chunky yarns too.

Actually, I ran out of yarn while casting off.. I only had less than 20 sts till the end. Imagine my anguish. D: So I went to the yarn monster stash and poked around. I found this Knitpicks Swish Bulky (I think the color is Cashew or cashewnut.. You get the idea) and the colors match pretty well. Plus, its machine washable, albeit its a little thicker and not shiny and smooth like the cashsoft aran… But its at the very edge. No one will notice, right? =D

There. Not too obvious.

This shawl is not very big. Just 38 inches across and 20 inches long. Its going to be a gift.

Someone sent me a pic of my knitted gifts in action.

Also, a couple of my friends came over for a barbeque last week. It was pretty fun.

Actually, there was no alcohol involved.. We just had coconut and used the coconuts to hold coke after we’ve finished the coconut. Thats quite environmentally friendly. Oh, and the tealight decrations are crocheted using wires and beads.