Thursday, July 24, 2014

Off the Needles: Moonlight Sonata Shawlette


I finished knitting this piece last night and did the picot bind off this morning. I used most of the 4 balls of yarn I had so the result is a short shawl rather than the scarf described in the pattern. This is a project that I'd abandoned a couple of years ago, and after knitting it again, I remembered why. The abundance of yarn overs that could be overlooked caused the stitch count to get off frequently. I can't count the number of rows that I had to unknit and do over. Fortunately, as I neared the end I got better at spotting my errors and could fix most of them without undoing an entire row. 

Here's the shawl as it came off the needles.




Wet and pinned to the blocking boards:




Closeup of the pattern motif. It's based on a pattern called "Sunspots" from Barbara Walker's A Third Treasury of Knitting Patterns.




The free pattern is Shui Kuen Kozinski's "Moonlight Sonata Scarf" from Elann.com and the yarn is Elann's Peruvian Baby Cashmere which is a fingering weight made up of 60% baby alpaca, 30% merino wool, and 10% cashmere. The colorway is #1417 "Peacock." A listing on Ravelry says it's been discontinued.

I have two more UFO lace pieces to tackle, but for now I think I'll take a break and knit something less challenging like mittens.

2 comments:

Jane McLellan said...

Oh wow, well done for getting it finished! It certainly does look a tricky pattern, but it's much too lovely to sit in the cupboard half finished.

occhitat said...

What a lovely version of the Moonlight Sonata to wrap yourself in!!