Mayur
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Mayur, meaning “peacock” in Sanskrit, was inspired by my desire to create a two color shawl with an ombre stripping sequence.
Sometimes simplicity is best and so to let the yarn shine, the only stitch patterns used are stockinette and a yo, k2tog mesh.
This makes it the perfect pattern for that special hand-painted yarn.
Yarn: 980 yards (896 meters), fingering weight
Shown in: Unplanned Peacock Studio, “Superwash Merino Fingering Weight”; 875 yards (800 meters)/skein, 1 skein each of “slate” & “robin’s egg”
Needles: US size 6 (4.00 mm) 40 inch (100 cm) circular or size needed to obtain gauge
Notions: 1 stitch markers, tapestry needle
Gauge: 20 sts/4 inches; 30 rows/4 inches (20 sts/10 cm; 30 rows/10 cm) in washed and blocked stockinette
Blocked Dimensions: 21.5 inches (54.5 cm) in diameter point to point, blocked
Skills Used: casting on, binding off, knitting, working in the round on circulars and DPNs, working with two colors of yarn in stripes, k2tog, yo, weaving in ends, blocking lace
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No Swatches
I’m always working on some project or another, and most weeks I talk about what I’m working on Wednesdays as part of Tami’s WIP Wednesday project. You can see past WIP Wednesdays … right this way.
There are no swatches in this post! Whooo! I finished those over the weekend.
So I cast on a new shawl without feeling any sort of guilt.
It’s a rectangular stole with various sized diamond motifs, knit out of 1 skein of The Verdant Gryphon’s Mithril, colorway “Interior.”
Love the yarn. Love the color. Love the pattern. LOVE!
But I’ve also been working on my shawl out of The Plucky Knitter.
It’s been growing. A couple stitches here, a couple rows there. I’m doing a very subtle garter st/ stockinette st pattern, so it’s great tv knitting for shows and movies that I actually want to pay attention to.
The patterning will be more obvious once it’s a pattern, and not just a couple stockinette rows.
If you’d like more WIP Wednesday posts from other bloggers, visit Tami’s blog.
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Even More Swatches
I’m always working on some project or another, which means I often have FOs and new designs to share. I usually share these on Fridays as part of FO:Friday, but sometimes I need the weekend to catch up. When that happens I share my FO the following Monday, because who doesn’t like a little bit of Friday with their Monday? You can see all my FOs … here … and all my designs … here.
The second and final (fingers crossed) round of green swatches are blocking as we speak.
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