I was so excited about starting the Miller's Daughter shawl, having been planning for it for about 3 months. Winding the beautiful Wollmeise, finishing all my other projects, and then casting on - four times. The first time was basically a gauge swatch, and I decided to go down a needle size. The second time I was doing double increases instead of triple, so the nine stitches I started with remained nine stitches. The third time I did the decrease every row, missing the instructions that some rows don't have decreases. Then I finally got through the first garter section. I guess reading the instructions properly might have helped.
I knit the first lace repeat with no major drama. Then I started the second repeat and I could not get the first row right. that took me four attempts too. So frustrating.
But then I got into the rhythm of the shawl. It really is as beautiful as I'd hoped, and, now I've got the hang of it, it's not a hard knit at all. Now all I need to worry about it how many repeats I'll get out of the yarn - the pattern is made for lace weight, and requires more yarn, so I've changed the needle size, and am carefully calculating how far this yarn will go.
I knit the first lace repeat with no major drama. Then I started the second repeat and I could not get the first row right. that took me four attempts too. So frustrating.
But then I got into the rhythm of the shawl. It really is as beautiful as I'd hoped, and, now I've got the hang of it, it's not a hard knit at all. Now all I need to worry about it how many repeats I'll get out of the yarn - the pattern is made for lace weight, and requires more yarn, so I've changed the needle size, and am carefully calculating how far this yarn will go.
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