Materials: 4 skeins Knitpick’s Alpaca Cloud, in iris
Needles: size 5 circulars and DPNs
Pattern: The cap shawl, from Victorian Lace today
Cast-on: May 2007
Finished: June 2007
If you look closely at the photograph, you’ll see that I bent my blocking wires on this one.
For all it’s size, this shawl was suprisingly easy and fast. I think that this is due to two factors: it is worked in the round, so there is no purling, and there are no directional decreases. All decreases are k2tog.
If you’ve ever wondered what a piece of lace knitting, knitted in the round, looks like while it’s being worked, here you go:
Not so pretty. You can’t see the lace. Blocking really is magic!
