I am making a shawl for my friend
Adrienne, an ashes-of-roses shawl in bulky baby alpaca. Fat yarn
means fat needles, and fat needles mean visible progress at a fast
rate. This particular shawl is based on the Irish Hiking Scarf, but I
added two more cable rows, and I've changed it from all front cables
to front, back, front, back, front. I like it, and it gives the shawl
a bit more depth. And like I said, it has cables. So far, I've cabled
11 times. And I love cabling.
But on of the weird things about me is
that when I put my knitting away, I cannot stop on a cabled row. I
have to knit at least two more rows after it, or, if I don't have the
time, I stop on the row before the cabled row. And why is this, you
might ask? Because it feels like cabling the yarn is torturing it,
and leaving it on the needles at the cabled row is hurting it.
Yeah, I know. Weird. Yarn doesn't have
any feelings. But it is stretching so, and let's face it, when one
knits the following row after a cabled row, everything is a bit
tight, especially around where the cable occurred. So removing it
from the needle, and then adding another row after that, helps to let
the yarn, well, relax. It isn't straining as much. It isn't quite as
tortured. It lets the yarn feel a little more groovy.
Well, I never said I was rational.
Here is the shawl I've got on the
needles right now. I have just added the third skein (of six), so
it's just about 1/3 done. It's just under two feet, and when it's
blocked, the cables will pop, and it will be a bit wider, enough to
be a proper shawl.
Just look at those cables. They're gonna >POP!< when it's blocked!
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