Recently, I picked up Evelyn A. Clark's Knitting Lace Triangles. It's a lovely little book that gives you lots of tips for knitting, well, lace triangles. She gives four lace patterns and combines them in a myriad of ways, working them either in stockinette or garter, alone or in combination, with or without transitions.
Everything is so clear and simple, I just had to cast on. With some beautiful Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock that a dear friend sent me, recently, I quickly worked up a few repeats of the ripple lace motif. But after that, I knew I wanted to go my own direction. Heaven forfend I actually follow a pattern, huh?
On our way to the beach, I knit away on my little shawl.
The colors of the yarn made me think of the autumn leaves just starting to show, on our route to the ocean. The ripples make me think of the sea lapping at the shore. As we passed by lovely little Nehalem Bay, I knew I had my shawl's name.
This morning, I moved my stitches onto longer cords and did a little steam block to see how it's looking.
I just started my second of two skeins, after nearly finishing 2 repeats of the feathery leaf pattern. The piece blocks out to about 48" wide right now. After I add another repeat of the feathery leaf, and then the border, I think I'll have a shawl that's another 6 to 8" wide, which I feel will be a good size to work as either a scarf or a small wrap for date night with Leo.
As for the beach trip, you know that went great.
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See entire set here
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
We tried riding our bikes on the beach, but the sand was either too dry (thus too soft) or too wet (thus too soft) to ride on. We'll try again at lower tide, though, because bikes + beach = a darn good run for the girls.
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Comments (7)
So pretty - the shawl and the beach. That is a perfect use of the yarn.
Love, J
Posted by Julia | September 26, 2008 6:28 PM
Posted on September 26, 2008 18:28
your shawl looks great so far! the colors are beautiful.
Posted by mai | September 22, 2008 8:13 AM
Posted on September 22, 2008 08:13
Love the lace and yarn. Looks very pretty. The Lace Triangles book is very good. The beach looked like good fun. spent the weekend on the beach too.
Posted by YarnAddict | September 22, 2008 3:51 AM
Posted on September 22, 2008 03:51
A stunner of a shawl! I love what you did with those flickr photos.
Posted by Becky | September 22, 2008 12:06 AM
Posted on September 22, 2008 00:06
Love the shawl - am sort of on a lace kick myself! And I think the varigated yarns looks good in lace. Can't wait to see it all finished.
Posted by Terry M | September 21, 2008 5:45 PM
Posted on September 21, 2008 17:45
Great start to the shawl - looking forward to the finished product. Cute photos of the girls, as usual!
Posted by AmyP | September 21, 2008 4:27 PM
Posted on September 21, 2008 16:27
ooh, the shawl looks lovely! I can't wait to see the final product.
and the trip looks so fun! I love Panda and Thea action shots. :)
Posted by Carrie | September 21, 2008 4:04 PM
Posted on September 21, 2008 16:04