Expanding Basketweave Shawl
Finished
July 18, 2018
August 4, 2018

Expanding Basketweave Shawl

Project info
Expanding Basketweave Kerchief by Amy Micallef
Knitting
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
Mum
Needles & yarn
US 15 - 10.0 mm
307 yards = 3.79 skeins
Lion Brand Hometown
none left in stash
3 skeins = 243.0 yards (222.2 meters), 420 grams
35752 x1, 48175 x2
Red-purple
Spotlight in New South Wales
July 1, 2018
Lion Brand Hometown
17 yards in stash
0.79 skeins = 64.2 yards (58.7 meters), 111 grams
50182
Red
Spotlight in New South Wales
July 29, 2018
Notes

A shawl for mum to do her until I finally finish knitting the Tilting Tardis Shawl

18-07-2018

I think there’s a few mistakes in the pattern already.
I noticed after row 16 that I had a long stripe instead of two squares, so I threw the pattern into Stitch Maps to see if there were any pattern errors.

Starting on row 13 the K and P haven’t been flipped to make the basketweave squares. The pattern continues fine after that, only it doesn’t follow the pattern set at the beginning.

Row 23 has k4, p2 instead of k4, p4
There may be an error on row 75?

I think I’ll have to wing the pattern. It looks like the squares get longer further down the pattern;
4 rows / row 28 / 7 squares
5 rows / row 58 / 6 squares
6 rows / row 88 / 5 squares
7 rows / row 116 / 4 squares
8 rows / row 132 / 2 squares


Tried to chart the pattern but it’s a bit beyond my resources.
I’ll just have to track the columns of established basketweave with stitch markers and remember to increase the length of the squares at the rows I noted above.
Thankfully the pattern repeat is symmetrical, making the edge stitches easier to track.

21-07-2018

Third ball of yarn joined 1/3 through row 53

02-08-2018

Added forth and final ball of yarn 1/4 through row 65.
Decided not to add any more yarn due to the weight of the shawl.

The third ball of yarn had a knot about 2m before the end that I did not add to the shawl. I might use it as shawl decoration later.

03-08-2018

Finished!

Bound off using Icelandic Bind Off on ws, after row 73.
Total of 29g yarn spare in two pieces.

I’ll need to steam block it into shape soon.

22-10-2018

Blocked!

I had trouble getting the top edge to be straight. I think the yarn is a bit too bulky to cooperate. I did fix up the massive bump at the neck though.

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Super Bulky
100% Acrylic
81 yards / 142 grams

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  • Originally queued: July 3, 2018
  • Project created: July 17, 2018
  • Finished: August 3, 2018
  • Updated: October 21, 2018
  • Progress updates: 10 updates