Finished items
* Updated this post 2-24-2016 - see additional reference at the end of the post!
Washed and laid out to dry - not pin-blocked, but this should work ok.
The rectangular item is dark brown alpaca in the center, with a wool-blend crocheted edging. The body pattern is the Japanese Feather lace stitch. The yarn was a Christmas present, so I am planning to keep it.
The other item (a shawl/scarf) was made using a new technique for the body (the blue yarn), then adding an saw-tooth edging with mixed scrap yarns pieced together in approximately 3 yd. lengths. The upper edge of the shawl (at bottom in the photo) was crocheted using the same scrap yarns - five rows of half-double crochet. The technique for the body of the shawl is similar to that for this shawl: http://www.interweavestore.com/potters-shawl-pattern - the body is worked from the center back neck and increases on the edges by 3 stitches per row. I was trying out the technique to see if it would work for some expensive yarn I have set aside.
* Another pattern which uses the same technique is the Crystal Bay Shawl by Rosemary (Romi) Hill, featured in the Fall/Winter 2015 issue of Knit-Purl magazine. The magazine also has an article on calculating yarn yardages to use other yarns for the technique.
Washed and laid out to dry - not pin-blocked, but this should work ok.
The rectangular item is dark brown alpaca in the center, with a wool-blend crocheted edging. The body pattern is the Japanese Feather lace stitch. The yarn was a Christmas present, so I am planning to keep it.
The other item (a shawl/scarf) was made using a new technique for the body (the blue yarn), then adding an saw-tooth edging with mixed scrap yarns pieced together in approximately 3 yd. lengths. The upper edge of the shawl (at bottom in the photo) was crocheted using the same scrap yarns - five rows of half-double crochet. The technique for the body of the shawl is similar to that for this shawl: http://www.interweavestore.com/potters-shawl-pattern - the body is worked from the center back neck and increases on the edges by 3 stitches per row. I was trying out the technique to see if it would work for some expensive yarn I have set aside.
* Another pattern which uses the same technique is the Crystal Bay Shawl by Rosemary (Romi) Hill, featured in the Fall/Winter 2015 issue of Knit-Purl magazine. The magazine also has an article on calculating yarn yardages to use other yarns for the technique.
