A deep triangle, with subtle shaping. An experiment in using only three small design components as building blocks. These can be assembled and reassembled in a variety of ways to create visual diversity, and to allow the knitter to explore different results.

The name was inspired by the speckled yarn, in a colourway called Salty Tales, and the complementing rusty orange semi-solid. The lattice stitch pattern is reminiscent of scales to me, and as the netting knit up, it seemed to catch a rather rusty mermaid.

Notes

There is a row with WS cables. It’s used once only in the entire shawl. It occurs to me that if anyone found the idea of cabling on the WS too intimidating or frustrating, it would be possible to slide the work to he other end of the needles (assuming the work it in circulars) and work this row as if it were a RS row. To get back in sync, either work the next row in the same fashion, or work the next 2 rows as if they were both WS rows.

ETA gannet now has a great article on her blog which explains WS cables very thoroughly. Wrong side cable crosses.

KTBL into the big loop: Surprisingly, the stitch count doesn’t change within each chart repeat. The decreases cancel out the yarn overs.

The 4 yos made in row 1 are basically one big loop, if you we’re to take them off the needle. It’s into this big loop that the 6 stitches are made.

You can make the 6 stitches in whatever way you feel most comfortable really. K,p,k,p,k,p is probably the easiest. This will result in a larger eyelet. Knitting tbl closes the hole up a bit, which may or may not be what you’re wanting. There’s a tutorial which might help here.

Salty Tales: 85g used, 311m/340y
Rust: 42g used, 188m/205y
~500m/550y total.

Meas: 160x60cm, 63x23in after blocking.

18g of rust used by end of net section. 65g salty remaining.
50g salty rem end first scales.
24g rust used end last rivets, 23g salty.
15g salty rem, 8g rust rem.

Manos 100g=424m, 106m per 25g, 212 per 50g HHF 366m per 100g.

Tacking some basket photos on from the results of the workshop in March. :) Wisteria frame (I think?), the dark brown at the sides of the bowl are Watsonia, and the green and gold of the gods eyes, and the centre bands of the brown are iris. The zucchinis were picked up from a roadside stall on the way home, and easily a foot long. Wish mine grew that well!