Pressed flowers
Finished
February 7, 2023
February 20, 2023

Pressed flowers

Project info
Pressed Flowers by Amy Christoffers
Knitting
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
72 x 28 inches
Needles & yarn
US 6 - 4.0 mm
1,170 yards
Lana Grossa Linea Pura Solo Lino Print
1.6 skeins = 520.0 yards (475.5 meters), 160 grams
156
Alamitos Bay Yarn Company in Long Beach, California
Malabrigo Yarn Susurro
1.6 skeins = 650.0 yards (594.4 meters), 160 grams
Wildfiber Studio in Santa Monica, California
Notes

Used a green malabrigo yarn at first, not enough contrast, so found the Linea Pura, which is better. Still not enough contrast though. Love the pattern and will make it again.
Had difficulty winding both yarns. Susurro sticks to itself.
Had to untangle (several hours!) the LP yarn before I learned my lesson to rewind it into a cake before knitting. No problems since.

Errors lines 74 and 78 and 90. Should be purls instead of knits, or knit instead of purl, but easy to see and just continue pattern.

Used exactly 100g of each color for the main shawl, before starting border. About 60 g of each color was used for border.

Modifications: added two knit rows (garter) in main color between main shawl and border. No increase so stitch count is the same for border. After row 96, continued with a repeat of rows 62 to 57 to finish the flowers, which are cut off in original pattern. See photo! Ended with three rows main color knit (garter) then bind off on wrong side with Russian bind off (like Bramwell shawl.)

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Finished
February 7, 2023
February 20, 2023
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by Malabrigo Yarn
Sport
50% Bombyx, 25% Linen / Flax, 25% Merino
325 yards / 100 grams

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by Lana Grossa
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80% Rayon, 20% Linen / Flax
260 yards / 100 grams

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  • Project created: February 11, 2023
  • Finished: February 20, 2023
  • Updated: February 23, 2023