Magickal Earth Shawl
FO: Magickal Earth Shawl by Sandy Terp from A Gathering of Lace
Ravelry Link: Here
Yarn: Alpaca With A Twist Fino (70% baby alpaca, 30% silk) in "Duchess Blue"
Needles: US Size 0, mostly using Addi Lace
Cast on date: March 2, 2007
Cast off date: February 7, 2010
Reason for delay: Between when I started this shawl and when I finished, I started a new job, moved, started graduate school while still working that job, bought a house, fixed it up, moved again, got commissioned by a client to make several different shawls, and had several friends and relatives have babies that required my immediate knitting attention. So while it took me three years to complete this baby, there's probably only four or five months of actual work put into her.
Modifications: I never thought, when looking at other people's pictures of this pattern, that the center bit looked like mountains and sky with a big ol' moon in the middle. To me, it always looked like a sunburst. So I futzed around a little and turned the middle of mine into a sunburst, and I couldn't be happier!
My apologies in advance for not having any outdoor photos of this, but it's snowed at least 40 inches since Saturday and I'm not going outside if I don't have to.
Feel free to click on any of the photos to get a bigger view:
Unblocked, the shawl does not look very magickal.
I'm apparently very bad at paying attention to my cats. After I didn't notice in my last shawl I posted here that Lilith was hovering over my project, it should come as no surprise that I didn't really notice Mig while I was blocking until after I looked at the photos. Talk about being in the Zone...
Center sunburst.
Moving outward we have the knotwork and the N symbol (other sides have E, S, and W).
UNICORNS! The whole reason I decided to do this shawl was because it has unicorns. So freakin' cool...
And here we have the trees and the border. That border? Is 20 feet and over 2000 rows. You start with it and then graft it and pick up stitches and knit inward.
I couldn't resist getting a couple of Jared Flood-style pictures of my project, though he has a much better macro lens than I do.
Knit tested, kitty approved.
Ravelry Link: Here
Yarn: Alpaca With A Twist Fino (70% baby alpaca, 30% silk) in "Duchess Blue"
Needles: US Size 0, mostly using Addi Lace
Cast on date: March 2, 2007
Cast off date: February 7, 2010
Reason for delay: Between when I started this shawl and when I finished, I started a new job, moved, started graduate school while still working that job, bought a house, fixed it up, moved again, got commissioned by a client to make several different shawls, and had several friends and relatives have babies that required my immediate knitting attention. So while it took me three years to complete this baby, there's probably only four or five months of actual work put into her.
Modifications: I never thought, when looking at other people's pictures of this pattern, that the center bit looked like mountains and sky with a big ol' moon in the middle. To me, it always looked like a sunburst. So I futzed around a little and turned the middle of mine into a sunburst, and I couldn't be happier!
My apologies in advance for not having any outdoor photos of this, but it's snowed at least 40 inches since Saturday and I'm not going outside if I don't have to.
Unblocked, the shawl does not look very magickal.
I'm apparently very bad at paying attention to my cats. After I didn't notice in my last shawl I posted here that Lilith was hovering over my project, it should come as no surprise that I didn't really notice Mig while I was blocking until after I looked at the photos. Talk about being in the Zone...
Center sunburst.
Moving outward we have the knotwork and the N symbol (other sides have E, S, and W).
UNICORNS! The whole reason I decided to do this shawl was because it has unicorns. So freakin' cool...
And here we have the trees and the border. That border? Is 20 feet and over 2000 rows. You start with it and then graft it and pick up stitches and knit inward.
I couldn't resist getting a couple of Jared Flood-style pictures of my project, though he has a much better macro lens than I do.
Knit tested, kitty approved.
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