Old Shale Scarf in Good Morning, Sunshine
I have managed to finish my first lace scarf in time for spring. The stitch pattern is an old Shetland one according to Barbara Walker, author of several treasuries of knitting stitches. You can find several free versions of old shale scarves on Ravelry.com (also called feather and fan stitch).
If you notice the Ravelry versions look different than mine, that is because I did not know what I was doing. I found out a ways in that I was doing all of my yarn-overs backwards. It was so hard to pick up the yarn-overs on the next row that I watched a video to see if there was a trick to doing it, and realized that I had been making them backwards. Ah. I see. Oops. By doing them backwards, I made the lace holes far smaller than they were supposed to be.
Knitting tip: when you are doing knit stitch, your yarn-over begins at the front goes over the right-hand needle and falls down the back. Thank you, Garn Studio, for your silent movies.
It’s still a pretty scarf and perfect with both my heavy and my light spring coats, and I figure other patterns with yarn overs will seem pretty easy in comparison. Stay tuned for a hat made in a harmonizing shade of hand-spun yarn.
The yarn is Knit-Picks’ bare worsted Wool of the Andes: https://www.knitpicks.com/yarn/bare-wool-of-the-andes-worsted-yarn/c/5420101
Dyed by yours truly with food coloring dyes which I learned from Gail Callahan’s book: https://www.knitpicks.com/hand-dyeing-yarn-and-fleece/p/31330
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