My knitted shawl is finished

You may have seen my knitted shawl in progress on 3 September. Well the good news is, I've finished it. The idea was to use up lots of odds and ends of colourful chunky yarn that had been squirrel away in a cupboard for years. Using size 7.5 mm needles I cast on 12 stitches and began knitting in garter stitch, increasing one stitch at the beginning of each row. The pattern was simply random stripes.

By the time the shawl was 18 in (45 cm) long I was beginning to find the whole thing was getting too bulky and stitches were falling of my needles! I like to improvise so decided to divide the work into three. I carried on knitting the centre stitches while the right and left sides were held on spare needles. The centre required no shaping and I was able to judge just how long I wanted the finished shawl before casting off. My finished length is only 27 in/70 cm as I didn't want it too large. Next I knitted the same number of rows on the left side (increasing one stitch at the beginning of every row on the the outside edge only). Cast off. Then I completed the right side (increasing at the right hand edge) and cast off. The stripes on each of the three sections don't match but the random pattern is very pleasing. I grafted the three sections together and finally I trimmed the shawl with a 4 in/10 cm fringe and the job was done.

The result - a deliciously warm, cosy and very colourful shawl.

Comments

[kitschen pink]

You make it sound so simple! It's beautiful! Tie to cosy up and have a mug of cocoa! t.x

[Redwood House]

good morning, have read the rest of your blog and what amazing things you make, I love the little acorns and the dolls are fab. The Lake District is a favorite place of mine how wonderful to actually live there.
Hope your not having as much rain as Gloucestershire.
Jan

[kim]

Hello, it's my first visit to your blog, what a treat!!! love the shawl, could do with one of those at the moment, we seemed to have jumped two seasons into winter