Final Aeolian Shawl

Blocking is completed and I’m thrilled with the outcome. All along the knitting, I have been concerned about the color being too bright. The blocking has “paled the color” since it stretched all the stitches. I Love This. I haven’t been able to get a decent photo of the beading and the subtle “frosting” effect it has on the knitted garmet, but is really pretty.

Thrilled the yarn had enough yardage in one hank to finish. I had leftovers, even though I added a second point to the center of the shawl by mistake.

The construction of the shawl was a mystery to me at first, even after studying and sweating over the 8 pages of instructions, but it was very clever. The stitches begin at the top of the long (hypoteneuse) side of the triangle, and the increases in the center make the point happen at the other two sides.

Now, on to more mindless knitting for a day or two. Then, who knows? I might need to start a sweater or something!

What's on your needles?

Is anybody knitting anything?

I finally worked up the nerve to begin the Aeolian Shawl. I must say, after studing the 8 PAGES of directions and charts, I still didn’t know where I was beginning in the construction. (Am I starting at the “point” of the triangle or where?) Hey, I may have KnitB4ItWasHip, but that doesn’t mean I know everything about it - even if my pride fools me into thinking so.

Now that I am in it, the pattern is very clever. The construction begins at the center of the LONGGGGG side(hypotenuse) of the triangle and the increases create the center point! Ha! I’ve got it.

I only wanted to put beads on the edge. However, I was snookered into the whole shawl being beaded ( because of the construction mysteries), but they make great stitch markers! Thanks to those little buggers, I have only been hoodwinked a couple of times on the repeats.
My first few hours of knitting have (K)netted this: