#botfa shawl

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Freshly blocked and drying (absolutely colossal 🫠)

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He is *complete*. The last clue was huge! Look at those oak leaves, apparently for the oak over Bag End.

Next is to block the shit out of it.

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Clue 4, wobbly goblin swords

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While beautiful, the speckled colours just don't show the lace clearly. So I'm frogging it all and starting again with new yarn 🫠

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The shawl is 84” by 38” 🤯 I could definitely have blocked it better, as you can see from the excess material between the points; however I don't have a big enough dog-free floor to do that, so here we are

Pattern is The Battle of the Five Armies by AlterLace and was released as a KAL 👇

The Battle of the Five Armies pattern by AlterLace

The third in a trilogy of Mystery Shawls inspired by the release of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in theaters. The first is An Unexpected Jou

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Clue 3 done! You can see (sort of) the leaf for the elves, and a geometric shape for Dain.

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Pre-blocking

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I'm on the last chart of the shawl now. Each row now has 1,021 stitches 🫠🫠🫠

I've gone for a wool/cotton blend fading from red to greens. It's not as shiny and smooth as the merino sock, but the stitches show up much more clearly.