FO: Izar
Twisting, turning, lacy cables galore.
The pattern for Izar is available, over on the Verdant Gryphon’s site!
Three skeins of Eidos a fingering/sock yarn in two colors, or one if that’s more your thing, a set of US 5 (3.75mm) needles, the pattern, and you’re set to go.
It feels like this pattern has been in the works forever, getting held up by one thing after another, it feels great(!) knowing it’s available!
Pattern: Izar
Yarn: The Verdant Gryphon, Eidos 100% superwash merino. Colorways: “Fenris″ (MC) & “Blinding Polyphemus” (CC)
Yardage: 3 skeins; two main color, 1 contrast color
Fiber Source: The Verdant Gryphon
Needles: 3.75 mm (US 5s) 40″ circulars
Come over get your pattern, plus some scrumptious yarn!
How many stitches are in a shawl anyway?
I thought it’d be interesting to calculating the number of stitches in the last shawl FO I posted about (dang it’s been awhile since I posted a shawly FO.)
Lapidarius was a basic rectangular shawl with:
67 stitches per row
48 rows per repeat
12 repeats in the shawl
1 set up row
and 6 border rows on either end.
So:
(6 border rows) + (6 border rows) + (1 set up row) = 13 border rows
(48 rows per repeat) x (12 repeats in the shawl) = 576 patterned rows
(576 rows in the patterned section) + (13 border rows) = 589 rows total
(589 rows total) x (67 stitches per row) = 39,463 stitches total (damn!)
I was expecting a lot of stitches, but certainly not that many! I was expecting maybe a couple thousand, but not almost 40,000 stitches for a (relatively) small shawl!
Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go pick my jaw off the ground.
(Have I done my math wrong? Is it actually 40,000?)
12 shawls in 2013
All the shawls of 2013.
Shawls that were just finished, or begun and finished.
1. The Shawl Without A Name. From very early this year.
2. Aella. Also finished up early this year. I actually want to reknit this shawl, and make a bunch of pattern tweaks.
3. Mayur. The first shawl started and finished in 2013. A really simple pattern, knit with the delightful Unplanned Peacock’s superwash merino fingering.
4. Red Mesh Shawl. Started as a very last minute gift for Christmas last year. Bound off on New Years. But not posted about (or gifted) until March. The pattern is exclusive (and free) for people who join the Announce Announce list.
5. Anwar. This was a huge lesson in trusting my own color sense, and it looks way more complicated than it is.
6. Lapidarius. Because diamonds are a girl’s best friend, and Latin is fun to play with.
7. Katherine’s Shawl. This was a sample for Katherine as far as I know the pattern isn’t available yet, but it certainly was a pleasure to knit.
8. Cotton Candy Shawl. I love how bright this shawl is, but I really wish I had taken better notes while knitting it.
9. Green Mutant Shawl. Garter stitch with simple shaping and i-cored edging. What’s not to love?
10. Lace Cables. Knit with the lovely Verdant Gryphon’s Eidos, this was partly an experiment in combining colorwork and lace in one shawl.
11. Teeny Tiny Flower Fields. This shawl managed to hide from the blog, all year long.
12. Plucky, Plucky, Shawl. Not quite finished when I took the photo, it still needs a good blocking, but almost there.
Plus 42 “mini shawls” aka swatches for the Shawl Geometry books. Because swatching is awesome.
I tried to list them in the order I talked about them on the blog, and in doing so realized I’ve been falling down big time on FO posts. Something to work on in the new year I suppose. 🙂
See you in 2014.
xx
