As you can see from the photos, I’ve made a lot of headway with Wingspan! But taken a backwards step with photography. I’ve been going in to the office this last week and a bit, instead of working from home, and the inability to do lunchtime photoshoots on my coffee table is proving a hindrance.
On completing section G (which it turned out I was only an eighth of the way through last time I posted, because the whole section repeats), I still had a lot of yarn left. Well, 75g. And the pattern reckons I’ll need between 36g and 48g to bind off. So… I thought about it and decided ‘fortune favours the brave’ before diving in to another partial repeat.
I’m only supposed to do this if I’m making the largest size (which I’m not) but I think it’ll work out OK. I have a skein of very slightly heavier cotton that I can use to bind off if need be. It was important to me that I get the full gradient of colour in the shawl (and not add much, if any, to my stash either).
Alas! Almost no sooner had I made this bold decision than this monster appeared:
It’s the stuff of nightmares! Essentially a load of tangled thread but the threads need to be kept together in sets of four and equally taut, and everything is all snarled and pinched and looped around everything else. I spent two evenings untangling. So many hours teasing out the threads and there were moments when I thought it wouldn’t be possible to fix. But having decided I wanted to use the whole skein, I was determined not to cut a chunk out.
I do think that ‘determined’ is by far the nicest way of saying ‘stubborn’, don’t you?
As a reminder: this is Wingspan (Ravelry link) by VectorKnits (Designer’s site). I’m knitting it in Cotton Kings Sultan Shadow (Hobbii link).
The Crafty Yarnster 