Wandering Minstrel
Finished
January 9, 2017
January 13, 2017

Wandering Minstrel

Project info
Troubadour by Nim Teasdale
Knitting
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
Needles & yarn
US 4 - 3.5 mm
Twisted Fiber Art Muse Evolution
5 yards in stash
1.41 skeins = 466.7 yards (426.8 meters), 99 grams
Twisted Fiber Art
Notes

Another nifty-spined triangle.

This was knit from just the one cake of Minstrel. To get the two colours, I knit from both ends of the ball, and called one end the MC, and the other the CC.

(It’s listed as 1.4 skeins because TFA comes in 4 sizes. This used a Medium skein, which is 100g. 70g is the size designated for 1 skein, and 100g equated to 1.4 skeins.)

To carry the floats, I trapped the resting yarn behind the second stitch. I often do this by lifting the strand of the resting onto the needle with the stitch about to be knit, and knitting the two together, then giving a little tug so the resting colour sits behind out of sight. For me this is less fiddle than twisting, but different things work for different people.


2 full repeats before switching the MC and CC, one repeat this way, resuming original MC and CC for the last 4 rows of chart.

70% yarn remaining when starting swapped colours, 50% after full repeat of flipped colours.
36 rem when starting r25 of next repeat
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19g rem end of 4th full repeat (2 waves per chart rep)

Last repeat, 13 g rem after row 15 (6g in 3 rows = 2 per row). 3g used in BO.

3g remaining, skein weighed 104g, so calculating yardage on 99g, though easy enough to bind off on a different row.

Used circs, however would probably go up a size on straights.

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January 13, 2017
 
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by Twisted Fiber Art
Fingering
50% Silk, 50% Merino
315 yards / 70 grams

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  • Project created: January 11, 2017
  • Finished: May 4, 2017
  • Updated: June 11, 2017
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