peacocks done.

What would cause an ordinarily sober, disciplined knitter to stay up late, get up early, skip going to the gym and indulge in marmalade for breakfast?

Finishing a lace shawl. Finishing, weaving in, washing and blocking. It turned out fine.

The pattern is lovely but I don't know that I would knit it again. Double yarn-overs are not my favorite thing to work. I don't like the k1 p1 in the same loop business, and I don't like wiggling around the loops on the next right side row to make sure I'm knitting into the k1 p1 and not into the original yo. (Maybe there is a trick to this I don't know?) The pattern is well-written, though I can't help but wonder if there is a better way to handle the design at the edges. There are the standard 4 increases every other row for a triangular shawl, and at the outer edges and the center the pattern is pretty much whatever's left over from the feather shapes. It would be nice to have a smoother kind of break. Perhaps it's just not feasible in this pattern; I haven't tried to chart it out. On the other hand, I think the general peacock feather idea would make a great rectangular stole, started in the middle with the denser patterns and transitioning to the larger feathers on the ends. It would be nice too to attach irridescent beads in the center of the feather holes and on the crochet edging. That could get very much like a peacock.

Anyhow--I'm done! I'm done! Yippee!

Comments

[Esther]

Well, you may not want to do it again, but it is so beautiful!
Great work!

[June]

Gorgeous! It looks beautiful!

[Cathy]

And it's well worth the indulgence of marmalade for breakfast. In fact, if I change my diet will one of those magically appear on my knitting needles?

[diana]

My goodness, it's lovely! Definitely worth skipping the gym :)

[Flibbertygibbet]

Wow! that's stunning!

[Ang.]

I've bee working on this same shawl for the last few weeks - don't get to do more than a couple of rows a night, though. Thanks for showing me it CAN be done - looks beautiful!