The shawl is growing and I still love working with linen.
Of course the first section goes quickly, when you start with a 12 st. row the subsequent rows are short. By now the rows are getting longer and take more time.
This is what lace looks like before it’s blocked. I am very interested to see what effect blocking has on linen, since Linen has no bounce back. I am still loving the knitting. I had a mishap, a needle got pulled out and there were loose live stitches. I can hear someone yelling: life lines! I hate life lines, they never work for me, too much effort to put them in. Anyway, because it is a stiff fiber, the dropped stitches didn’t run and it was very easy to put them back on the needle. Usually when that happens I end up picking up a stray stitch was I knit the next row. Not this time.
I really appreciate my charts in Knit Companion, it has made the knitting much easier.
You can see that linen doesn’t give the smooth stitch definition that wool does, waiting to see what the blocking does.
Also, one of my handmade stitch markers. These have a way of disappearing quickly – so I am always making more. Basic wire and beads.
Leah