Seascape

As you know, I sometimes knit things. For the last two months it’s been Seascape. You see, four months ago, for my grandmother’s birthday, I gave her a little bag with yummy alpaca, a pattern and a pair of circs. She took one look at the pattern and went: “that is too hard, I can’t do this”.

The pattern was a translated version of Kiri, the first lace shawl I ever managed. It’s really not that hard, but she has less patience and is more of a product knitter than I am. Like, she’s knitted the exact same baby cardigan for every single grandchild and great-grandchild. Easy and quick is her model.

So I took the yarn back and promised her a shawl. Only I have a rule of only knitting things once so I had to go digging for something else, and since I looooove symmetry Seascape was the answer. And here it is.

Pattern: Seascape.

Ravelry: link.

Yarn: Indiecita (100% alpaca, 50 grams, some mysterious unknown yardage), 3.5 skeins lavender/pink.

Pre-blocking it was 127 x 35 cm. After it was this enormous size, a total of 169 x 50-ish cm. And I say 50-ish because I couldn’t be bothered to make both sides perfectly even, so it ranges from 48 or so to 55. The perfectionist in me is screaming, but the “oh my God it’s 35 degrees outside”-part of me won.

It’s wider than my arms!

A inside pic for a close-up of the pattern. Here you can see that it’s not even. Boo. Grandma loved it though, and that’s all that counts.

Posted: July 15th, 2010 under all my posts.
Tags: finished objects, knitting

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