Shawl is Blocking and Drying

Whose shawl is this anyway?

I finished the edging last night and all that is left is the blocking.

I set out my blanket on the bed and started pinning the shawl out.

I'm very glad I skipped a couple of the middle clues because it turned out enormous. I couldn't even fit it all on the bed and had to find a chair for one wing of the shawl.

The shawl measures 114 inches across (almost 10 feet or roughly 300 cm) and it is 57 inches long. It will drag on the floor I fear when I wear it!

Unfortunately my blocking blanket has a strong pattern so it is difficult to see the shawl pattern, but here is a closer look at the pattern. The beads are much more prominent in real life! (almost too much so!)  You can click on any picture to enlarge it!

Finished, but Not Blocked

The knitting and binding off are done. Now there is just the blocking.  Here are some preview images.

Not such a great photo since I had to push the shutter button myself. Here it is on the couch. It is big and should be pretty warm!  Unfortunately the pointy edges are curling so you can't see them yet.

Panama Shawl Update

I ran out of yarn on my other shawl, so I'm back working on the Panama shawl. (Maybe I can use the leftover yarn to finish the rose trellis shawl.

Shawl Progress

So, I managed to catch the cold that is going around, so I am mostly sleeping and doing a little TV watching and knitting here and there.  Here is the progress on my shawl.  It was getting so large by clue 4 that I decided I would have to skip clue 5 and 6 and move on to 7,8,9 and 10 (because  it would have been more than 6 feet long after blocking if I had knit all the clues.)

Here is a closer view of the current pattern, which I am having to modify since it doesn't line up right anymore with the other motives.

You can see the beads a little better here. I put typing paper under parts of the shawl to show off the pattern a bit better.

Yet another shawl update - still clue 3

Here is the Panama shawl as it now stands. Progress is slow and I still have 8 more rows of clue 3 to do! (Click on the images to enlarge as they are rather hard to see in detail).

You can start to see what I am calling the flower motif developing below. There is a yellow/gold bead in the center of each flower, but against the wood floor they are pretty much impossible to see.

Here are a couple of detail shots to show the pattern a bit better.

The copper beads show up much better in real life!

Here is the Panama shawl as it now stands. Progress is slow and I still have 8 more rows of clue 3 to do!

Beads

Here is a picture to show how the beads are lining up (ahem).  You can't see them that well, but they are really shiny and pretty in  real life.

Panama Shawl

I ripped out a few rows of my shawl yesterday so I could put some beads in my Panama shawl to brighten it up a bit.  The designer is German and I think the idea of Panama is something warm and colorful and of course I chose a mousy brown boring yarn. The beads I chose are an orangey color to make things seem a bit warmer.

You can hardly see them in the picture above, so here is a closer view. The beads are much brighter than they appear in the picture.