Great pattern! Much faster than expected. Very delicate looking.

I made a lacy sweet wedding gift for a receptionist at my doc’s office. Her colors are blush pink, mint green and gold, in a vintage style wedding.

The pink thread uses a irridescent pink/gold for the metallic wrap, the white is more of a pearlescent, the green is a tonal irridescent metallic.

THE IDEA, 2013 June 14: I would like to use the white for the upper body of the scarf. Then have pink for the shell border. If I can get in the mint green, I will.

I may need to use a smaller hook to keep the stitches neat and tight. The shawl will block out much larger, since bamboo stretches so much more than the original cotton thread specified.

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UPDATE 2013 July 27: It’s working up much faster than I expected. It took me three hours to finish off one ball of white thread, at 13 rows so far. These bamboo blend thread balls are smaller than cotton ones; only 100 yards compared to 150.

I’m using a 4.5 mm Crystalites (inline) acrylic hook. For such delicate thread and metallic wrap, it has smoother edges than an inline metal hook does.

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I came to the end of the second ball of white right at the point when there are 28 chain spaces (which was row 34, not 35 as stated in the pattern, because I made an error I didn’t catch until after I was finished).

So I am going to fasten off the white, and instead do rows 35 -37 in green; full rows, rather than short rows.

Then use pink thread for row 38, as a full row of the chains/sc across, and then continue the pink for the shell section.

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Yardage is a pain to estimate since I only have a kitchen scale that reads ounces and grams, and it’s not digital. But here’s how the colors worked out:

• 2 balls white (200 yds) completed through row 34.
• I used a partial ball of green for the 3 rows I modified to be longer; I estimate about 1/3 of a ball, maybe 35 yards.
• I used 2 full balls for most of the shell section, but needed a 3rd ball to do the very last row. So I estimate about 230 yards total for the shell section. (The shell rows use a lot of yarn compared to the chain/sc rows.)

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PHOTOS:

• 1 through 8 are poses and closeups of the finished shawl.
• Blocking
• Blocking, center shells
• Blocking, right tip
• Blocking, left tip
• Yarns used (Note: needed 1 more pink ball not shown, and only used 1 of the green shown here.)

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UPDATE, 2013 August 2nd:

I’m not entirely pleased with the colors. In the ball they seem pastel, but now they seem really bright. They are her wedding colors though, so I hope she likes it. The pink definitely seems to glitter almost with a gold look, so I’m glad for that.

I did not try to tightly block it, but it stretches plenty enough on its own. I just patted it into place except the edges where pinned. I pushed each of the points of the shells open for a better defined edge. It looked sort of ‘blah!’ otherwise.

This yarn makes a very soft piece with lovely drape. I think it works fine as a shawlette or scarf. It has good stitch definition, but I don’t know if it could hold a stiff shape, since I wouldn’t want to use too small a gauge; it’s pretty delicate to work with.

Oddly, the pink and green gave me a bit more trouble with splitting and snagging the metallic wrap than the white did. I had no problems with the white at all.

I had to block it on an old cardboard cutting board for sewing that I still had. My regular blocking board (the big one) has too many upcoming WIP bags sitting on it. (I should know better, but I was trying to organize them in advance.) It’s also too dark in the other room for photos. The blocking photos taken here are in the kitchen under the skylight at midday.

UPDATE, 2013 August 4th: I finally wove in the loose ends.

UPDATE 2013 August 7: Well, now that I’ve got photos and such, I’m pretty happy with how this turned out. The colors look fine when the sun is brighter, and it is a summer shawl after all, so that’s when it will be worn.

I really wish I could better photograph the sparkle in these yarns. The rose in particular has a pink/gold sheen that is beautiful! All wrapped up and ready to give to the bride!

Update: She loved it and took it on her honeymoon.