I decided to start a new series of posts on my blog, showing the process of hand knitting of the shawls available in my
ArtFire shop. Here is a story of a
beautiful hand knitted wrap I've finished yesterday:
So it all started from a ball of beautiful and soft yarn (80% merino 20% angora to be precise).
For the main body of the wrap I decided to go with one of traditional Estonian patterns called Pohlamarjakiri or Ligonberry Pattern. It's a very nice pattern, looks great when knitted with lace yarn and slightly bigger needles.
After 5 days, the wrap's main body was finished and it was time for the decorative edge. I had to pick up stitches from all 4 sides of the wrap - 648 in total.... sounds scary, I know!
After another 2 days of knitting, the lace edging was finished and the wrap was almost done. Next, it had to soak for one hour in a warm water with liquid soap added and then....
... while it was still wet, gently pinned to a wooden frame to stretch and shape it ( if you ever wash a shawl like this by yourself, you can simply stretch it on your bed and use pins to block it). I left it like this for a night to slowly dry.
And here's the final result!
You can find it in my
ArtFire shop.
Now, it's time for some numbers behind this shawl!
75cm - the width
178cm - the height
87g - the weight
7 - number of days invested
670 - meters of yarn used
and last but not least...
91*320 + (92*2 + 232*2)*20 = 29120 + 12960 =...
42800
total number of stitches worked.
