The latest and greatest on the Loquat shawl:
I’m having some doubt on the edging pattern. I was thinking of using this one (Classic Bead Edging from Barbara Walker), with that top garter strip changed to faggoting to match the pattern in the main part of the shawl, but maybe it looks too bumpy, too open/uneven in contrast to the stockinette triangles in the Honeybee lace. The swatch below has been blocked, by the way. What do you think? The Wave Edging used in the Print o’ the Wave stole might be nice–it’s one of my favorite edgings of all–but I was worrying that it might be too small-scale to work with this shawl and might not be stretchy enough to bind off the faggoting stitches, which are very wide. I’ll make a swatch tonight if I have time… otherwise, BW vol.2 is coming with me on my trip to Toledo.
Perhaps I shouldn’t do the sideways edging, but extend the pattern downwards (I was thinking of using a variation on the Razor Shell pattern in order to make scallops). Full of doubt now, as that part of the shawl gets closer…
Anyway, it’s a good 42 inches across the top, now, stretched out. I knit a bunch on it last night and finished Fitcher’s Brides (it’s based on the Bluebeard fairy tale, so perhaps was not a great book to be reading as I was knitting a wedding shawl… I will have to find a “happily ever after” book to read to counteract it. Bridget Jones’s Diary
It actually goes over the shoulders now (I will have more to say later about the cloud dress you can see me wearing):
Here are details of the mini-cables leading into the honeybee lace at the 4 increase points on the shawl. They twist in opposite directions on the two sides of the shawl.
Stretched out, the shawl reminds me of a big, yellow, pretty, lacy, manta ray:
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July 2, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Kalani
There’s a certain fluidity to the shawl-as-manta-ray photo that I think might get lost a bit if you add sideways movement at the shawl’s edge. On the other hand, I’m in to the last chart of the feathers in Icarus and am really liking the scallops, so that might be influencing my opinion right now.
Either way, it’s going to be absolutely fabulous when it’s done.
July 2, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Diana
I love the minicables-and-honeybee pattern! I’m not sold on the edging pattern though – it definitely seems a bit too uneven and unstructured for the really strong vertical lines and patterning in the rest of the shawl. I think a peaked edging (like in Icarus, which has similar strong vertical lines in the body) might look nice.
July 2, 2008 at 12:50 pm
yoel
That shawl looks beautiful! I can’t figure out which way the edging swatch would attach to the shawl, but overall it seems like the pattern is a bit too big to go with the lace in the shawl. Maybe some tiny scallops or floral edging? The shawl pattern seems really small and delicate, so a big pattern might detract. I love the little “bees” in the shawl esp!
July 2, 2008 at 1:39 pm
gleek
oooh, it’s getting even better!
July 7, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Nicole
I’m liking it a lot!