academic woes and knitting
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frualeydisI am currently trying to tie together the last loose ends in my chapter. I'm not totally happy with it, but I think I need to finish it and leave it to Thomas (the professor) and get on with the next chapter. Then I can have a new look at it with fresh eyes in a month or so. I'm going to bind together some sections and then I'll print it and read through it and make some changes and then I'll give it to him.
I have finished my shawl now, but I'm not totally happy with it. Firstly it's smaller than I thought it would be (I also used less yarn than expected, which is odd). Maybe I knit too firmly, it's much denser than in the pictures for sure. It is also very uneven, very far from a perfect triangle. I have followed the description, but maybe I knit more firmly at the end of each row or something like that. We'll see what pinning it to a blanket and a sheet and pressing on it with a damp towel and an iron will do. I think it will be pretty anyway, but now that I have finished it and really have gotten into knitting that pattern I feel that I really want to make another to make it properly. I won't do that, but I would love some help to find a victorian knitted bed cap or something like that. I have seen pictures of them, but no descriptions.
I have finished my shawl now, but I'm not totally happy with it. Firstly it's smaller than I thought it would be (I also used less yarn than expected, which is odd). Maybe I knit too firmly, it's much denser than in the pictures for sure. It is also very uneven, very far from a perfect triangle. I have followed the description, but maybe I knit more firmly at the end of each row or something like that. We'll see what pinning it to a blanket and a sheet and pressing on it with a damp towel and an iron will do. I think it will be pretty anyway, but now that I have finished it and really have gotten into knitting that pattern I feel that I really want to make another to make it properly. I won't do that, but I would love some help to find a victorian knitted bed cap or something like that. I have seen pictures of them, but no descriptions.
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Date: 2005-02-18 02:21 pm (UTC)I have pressed the shawl and it is more triangular, but definitely not symmetrical. Apparently I have a very different tension when I decrease in the beginning of the row and when I do it in the end of the row. It doesn't show so much when I'm wearing it drape dover my shoulders, I just have to think of it so that it hangs nicely on my back.
Eva