I finished this a while ago, I haven’t bothered to weave in the ends or block it yet. I’m torn between leaving it and finishing it properly or just frogging it and knitting something else.
It was easy to understand, came with both written and charted instructions (charts are definitely my favourite) and was very familiar to me, having cast on and knitted, but not finished, three other shawls. The idea behind a triangular shawl is simple: The shawl is increased evenly, every row on the right side of the work, probably with a yarn over and appropriate decrease.
The main stitch pattern, the body of the shawl, was easy as pie. I didn’t like the fact that the designer neglected to include a garter stitch tab and I wish I’d thought of it before ripping back to redo the cast on seemed more trouble than it was really worth. You can’t see it in the photo, but the shawl sort of dips into the center. It’s fine if you like that look, but a good garter stitch tab would have blended better with the edge stitches.
My gripes lie mostly with the border edging, I don’t think that it blended all that well with the body of the shawl, at least not at first. I followed RiverPoet’s instructions on repeating rows 11/12 three times more. Imagine my frustration when I followed her instructions to a T, or so I thought, and it didn’t turn out! Instead of ripping back I decided to go with it and decreased three stitches on the third row (slip two as if to k2tog, k2tog, psso.) That evened everything out on the following rows and the extra rows gave it a sort of tulip appearance, don’t you think?
Ah well, the point is that it’s done. It was a total bitch to bind off, too.
