Horrah for the return of pictures!

To christen the newly returned camera, I blocked the alpaca Seraphim Shawl I’ve been studiously ignoring since I finished it in July.

Pattern: My Seraphim Shawl pattern, available through the store here.
Yarn: Wild Geese Fibres alpaca, 90% natural black and 10% dyed blue. The skein had 1300 yards and I still have a pretty hefty chunk of it left. You can get a better picture of the coloration of the yarn here.
Needles: US 4 Addi Turbo Lace Needles
Modifications: None except needle size and yarn. I knit the pattern as is without any of the size modifications that are given. I liked it well enough the first time around, I might as well do it again 😉 It did come out a different size though. It blocked to 76″ wide and 38″ deep, but that’s not so far off from the original now that I think about it.
Verdict: I’m happy with it. I love the subtle color of the yarn and I’m sorry it took me so long to block the sucker.

It took me so long to block it becausem first I was waiting to get blocking wires (they’re 3′ stainless steel welding rods and they cost me $20 for one pound of them, which equates to 36 rods), and then I was waiting to clean my house so I could have enough space to block it, then I was so busy with deadline knitting that I couldn’t allow myself to be distracted.

Blocking with the wires was super easy though. I enjoyed it and my fingers, which are usually numb from all the pressure on small pins used during blocking, are fine and happy and have as much sensation as they normally do. All in all, I probably used fewer than 20 pins, and when you consider that I used to use probably one hundred or so, it’s a lot of progress.

Speaking of shawls, I did finally get my comp copy of the Best of Interweave Knits.

It makes me giddy just seeing it there, but if you look closely, you can see that in all of the pictures the shawl is on the model wrong side out. hehe.

In that vein, here are a bunch of finished shawls that AREN’T wrong side out.


Nonnahs finally finished her Icarus shawl after a long hard pull ; ) It’s really beautiful dearest!

Materfamilias finished a beautiful RED Icarus! It makes me want to cast on for a red shawl myself!

Nicole also finished an Icarus with awesome green beads on the edge!

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