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ROSE OF ENGLAND SHAWL knit by Grannie Linda |
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 A SMALL START....I USED BERNAT BABY FINGERING ACRYLIC YARN. Initially, the shawl was to be a prototype. I have been experimenting with different types of shawls (see below) to decide what type I want to make a handspun shawl out of....in the meanwhile, I have knit a handspun Faroese Shawl (my favorite style) and I have decided to hand spin for a Shetland Isle shawl...see HERE. I had bought all the packages of the pink fingering yarn in the store...twelve 50 gm. balls, then decided, as the shawl grew, and grew...that I would need more. Twice I ordered four more balls and that brought the total to 20. ( I eventually used 17 of them for the completed shawl.) I used a size 6 needle. I used the Knit Picks Harmony interchangeable needles and the 60 inch cable was my final size! The tips of these needles made lace knitting much easier than any needles I have used so far. |
 THE PATTERN was from Marianne Kinzel's Second Book of Modern Lace Knitting (Dover Publications). It is intended to be a dinner cloth, but I decided to use the pattern for a shawl. I omitted the last row of leaves before doing the final "bud" design. I had to do fewer repeats in the center of charts "J" and "K" charts before beginning the edging. |
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 I was aiming for a diameter of about 72"....well, it is more like 94"!!! No wonder it took 17, rather than the planned 12 packages! I decided it is not a shawl....it is a BLANKIE!!! I don't know it I will wear it as a shawl, as it is very heavy (about 30 oz. total!), but it will make a lovely, warm covering!!! |
 The edging is from "Traditional Knitted Lace Shawls" by Martha Waterman. I had to go left to right to get the leaves to be right side out, but once blocked... |
 ....you can see the obvious leaf pattern! I had to make about 160 leaves around the edge of the shawl...at 15 minutes per leaf...you do the math! |
 This is the shawl worn folded in half. (Back) |
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| Below are some of the other shawls that I have done in an attempt to try different types and styles of shawls: | |
 Made in 2000-2001, a Shetland Isle Shawl - "Christening Chrysalis" - designed by Priscilla Gibson-Roberts, and republished in "The Best of Knitter's Magazine Shawls and Scarves" - XRX Books. |
 Here I am wearing the shawl on Easter, 2008. I am with my sons Sam and Jesse. |
 This was also from a Dover Kinzel Lace knitting book. I just did 1 quarter of the pattern to make a triangle shawl out of handspun angora and alpaca. (2006) |
 This triangle shawl was crocheted out out handspun Corriedale and Cotswold yarns. (2007) |
 This was a "pi-are-square" shawl as directed by Elizabeth Zimmerman, with a slight change around the neck. It is done as an acrylic prototype out of Red Heart Soft worsted weight yarn....I wear it almost every day!!!! (2007) |
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 This Faroese Shawl was knit with handspun alpaca (2008). For more details go HERE. This style is by far my favorite and most comfortable to wear! |
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 WEDDING LACE SHAWL designed by Cynthia Heeren Knit 2009! |
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