Enchanted Wood Shawl by Lana Jois

The other weekend – I was packing to go away and I wanted to take some knitting with me. Everything seemed to large or too complicated.  Then I remembered some beautiful yarn that I have had for years that I was going to make into some kind of shawl.  It is Arroyo by Malabrigo which is pure superwash merino wool.  It is very soft.

I was too tired to get much done – but I am happy with it.  The design is quite complicated for me but I think I might be able to learn the pattern.  The problem is that it would be better to put this project on one side again and go back to all the other difficult or unfinished projects which are not portable.

I do want to finish the Bauhaus throw and it is nearly finished but it is far too hot to touch it today.  I think I will do some more of the shawl.  I am trying to understand the pattern so it is not so hard to knit.

Bauhaus Throw – Squares 4 and 5

The tennis has finished and I am over the excitement of watching the cricket on TV for the first time in 14 years.  I have now reknitted Square 4 (which was originally Square 2) and knitted Square 5.  I have also knitted the 5 rows in-between - knitting the edge to the centre spine – so I will not have to sew up a hole.  I had hoped that I would be able to do this – I knit the stitch on the needle together with one from the spine.

If I was designing this throw  - I would probably not have created patterns where the same colours are next to each other but that is what the original design is like – so I have just copied it.  It is liberating in a way – because I don’t have to make any decisions – just copy the postcard.

I now have Square 6 left to knit and if I can switch off this computer and not start looking at family history – I will do that now.

Bauhaus Throw – Square 3

Shortly after writing the previous post – I decided I needed to take my own advice – which is – if you are not happy with your knitting - take it out.  So immediately after finishing Square 2 – I unravelled it!  I decided that I should have knitted Square 2 above Square 1 and then Square 3 above that.

I will then knit a long centre spine and knit Squares 4, 5 and 6 from the bottom again.  I normally knit modular knitting in strips so I don’t really know why I did what I did.  I think I was concerned about how wide the throw would turn out.

As I think the amount of yarn I have is quite tight – I must reuse the yarn I have unravelled.  I had even darned in the ends – so now the lengths will not be long enough but hopefully I will still have enough yarn to complete the throw.

I have now completed Square 3 as well as the new Square 2 and my next task on this project, after knitting the centre spine – is to tackle the pile of unravelled yarn.  My lounge will be much tidier when I have done it.  As the tennis is now on every day – I should get it done this week but I have started knitting a little baby jacket.  It is amazing how quick that is to knit despite my changing my mind about which size to knit.  I would like to get that finished this week as well.