I’ve been eyeing this pattern for a long time, and when I found the Grindylow color from Vrinda (now Laneras), I knew I had to bring the two together. It was a fun project, and I love how it turned out. I flew through the garter and stockinette sections and stumbled through the lace (always forgetting which decrease I’d just done, but at least that way I got really good at recognizing them on the needle). It turned out a lot bigger than I expected, even though I chose the large size. I love big scarves/wraps, though, so that’s just fine with me. It was 104” x 22” on the mats. I haven’t measured it yet today because every time my cats got in reach of it, they tried to eat it. Weirdos.
I love this yarn. The color is completely gorgeous, and the wool is so soft and forgiving of tinking and frogging. I didn’t alternate skeins and got lucky that skein changes took place right on the border between sections because there were small shifts in tone.
01-28-2021
I finished Sections A & B, and one repetition of Chart 1 for Section C. Something wonky happened on Row 3 of Chart 1 on the first half. I got distracted and wound up with an extra stitch before the center Markers. Tinked back as well as I could, but I’m not sure it was right. A few stitches were odd--not twisted but overlapping? May have to frog and start over if things don’t look right in the morning.
01-29-2021
So tired today. I ultimately made it to five repeats of Chart 1, but not without having to tink back a few times, and once I had to rip back to my lifeline at the end of repeat 3. I’m putting it away before I mess things up worse. It isn’t hard, my brain is just foggy. Looking good, though.
01-30-2021
Finished the first lace section (Section C / Chart 1), Section D-F (garter, narrow stockinette, garter), and am halfway through with Section G (wide stockinette). This yarn feels so soft and lovely on the stockinette portions.
02-01-2021
Finished Section J. Now it’s time to do it all again thricely.
02-05-2021
So you mess up a stitch, and in trying to fix it you drop it, but you’re in luck--the lifeline is right there, one row down. You fumble but eventually decide to frog back a row. But then your floss lifeline falls out of one end, and you aren’t sure what the last stitch is anymore or where these loose loops, etc., came from. The project starts with a slip stitch and yarn out of normal position. With no idea how to fix it, you make something up that looks close to right and count your stitches, as long as you’re paused. You realize you have 89 stitches. You are supposed to have 90. Did you drop the missing stitch right now? Did you forget a YO in an earlier row? How long has this atrocity been afoot??? You stare at your project, cursing yourself for only having one lifeline at a time. You are not sure that you can frog back to the garter section without losing a stitch. You remember the existence of Tinking. With shaking hands, you tink back two entire rows at a glacial pace as the sun sets and the room darkens. Squinting, you count the stitches again, and, WHEW, 90. You redo the frogged rows and decide to put a lifeline EVERY row for a while. That took a LONG @#@ time.
02-06-2021
I finished what I’m calling C2 and made it through D2, E2, and F2 (two garters and a narrow stockinette). I had to hook on a new skein at the end of D2. So far, I’m not alternating skeins, just hoping that switching skeins at the end of a section will work okay. If I start to notice jarring changes or pooling, I might start alternating then. I was just leery to do so with these Fancy Schmancy slip stitch selvedges (Fancy because I’ve never done them and because, as a Norwegian/Continental knitter, I always have the yarn in back and fumble when I actually need to swing it forward.) Later: I made it through three (of ten) sets of stockinette on G2, then my “necklights” ran out of battery so I had to quit for the night.
02-07-2021
Finished G2 and H2.
02-08-2021
Did I2 and J2. Tomorrow I’ll start the 3’s. Just throwing it down on the bed and running my hand over it to smooth it out, it’s about 2.5 feet long.
02-13-2021
Just finished D3. I’ve had fumble fingers the last few times I’ve knitted, so it’s slow going.
02-18-2021
Did E3, F3, and the 1st repeat of G3 today.
02-27-2021
Took a break from this to finish my Martin House wrap (Richland, by Dee O’Keefe), then spent this afternoon doing H3-J3. This feels so small and light and easy to handle after my big aran shawl project!
03-04-2021
I am so not back in the swing of things with this shawl. I’ve been working on C4 since yesterday and have just three repeats of chart 1 to show for it. The sloths and slow loruses are in charge of my hands again.
03-09-2021
Up to 6th repeat (out of 8) for C4.
03-11-2021
Up to 7th repeat
03-12-2021
Did D4-F4 today. Garter and Stockinette fly by so much faster for me than lace. I feel like I spent all month doing C4. Granted, D-F are shorties, two rows twice for each, but those twelve rows were finished in the length of time it takes me to do a single four-row lace pattern repeat.
03-13-2021
Did the first six repeats of G4.
03-15-2021
Finished H4-J4. Just one more full lace section then the decreases.
03-18-2021
Up to 4th repeat of C5 (lace)
03-21-2021
Finished 7th and 8th repeats of C5 then blazed through D5, E5, F5, and half of G5 (all 5s are decrease/taper sections). I had to break out my 4th skein after F5. Might have made it farther, but that 3rd skein was full of knots and splices and one part just broke off--only about 20-ish yards, so I didn’t reattach it.
03-22-2021
Finished through J5. All that’s left now is the final lace and then bind-off.
03-23-2021
Finished knitting it today. It’s currently soaking and will soon be on the blocking mats.
Holy moly! This puppy is pinned out at 104” x 22”!!! Not brutally tightly, either. We’ll see what it settles down to.
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