I'm working on my Reyna Shawl often, with its soft Malabrigo Mechita yarn in Whales Road. For a single ply yarn, it is so far not pilling and that's appreciated. I think Mechita is my favorite fingering yarn so far.
Reyna is a shawl with a series of ever-growing lace panels within garter sections. I found that I really liked one Reyna made with smaller lace sections; so I'm trying out fewer lace rows than the pattern. The pattern has an ever increasing amount of lace rows, going from 2 rows, to 4, to 8 and then 16. I accidentally did 3 rows of lace at first by mistake and it was too pretty to rip out; so the next I did the 4 rows and I'm thinking of doing 6 rows and then maybe 8 (or 8 and then 12, I haven't decided yet). The garter rows became thicker kinda by accident. I was watching an elderly local artist friend and having tea with him. The moment was perfect and I was into my Garter stitches and there was no way I was diverting my attention to doing holes. So I created an 11 ridge garter section (22 rows) instead of 8 ridges of garter in the pattern and I'm repeating that since I know I have more yarn than the pattern is called for and I know I'm doing smaller lace sections. It looks good.
© Noora Laivola
Reyna by pinkamingo (fewer lace rows)
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I love your Reyna yarn choice and I agree with you - the smaller lace sections are perfect!
ReplyDeleteThat shawl is going to be beautiful. I love your approach to knitting the pattern your own way.
ReplyDeleteOh that yarn with that pattern is perfection!
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