Pattern: A curved shawl with diamond edging, from Victorian Lace Today
Yarn: Jaggerspun Zephyr, color Cinnabar
Needles: Addi Turbos, US 3 (3.25mm)

The finished shawl is about 5.5 feet at its widest point and 2 feet deep in the center, which is slightly bigger than the dimensions given in the book.

Pattern
The construction of the shawl is pretty simple. You cast on 49 stitches, increase steadily until you have 301 stitches, and then do a picot bind-off. Then you attach the edging. The shawl isn’t so much curvy as trapezoidal.

This is a true knitted lace pattern, with patterning on every row. Both the main body of the shawl and the edging are garter-stitch based. My other lace projects have been stockinette-based with patterning only on right-side rows and I found this to be a step more difficult.

This is one of those projects that requires too much attention to knit while watching TV, but is much too mind-numbing to just sit and knit. In other words, it’s perfect podcast-listening knitting.

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It is done. (She says ominously.)

I don’t know why I thought ripping the sweaters would be a quick job, but I suppose it’s only fair that what takes 100 hours to knit takes at least an afternoon to destroy.

I can’t decide if Hourglass was excited or terrified to be frogged, but when I went to unpick the neck facing I discovered it had already started unraveling of its own accord.

Seamless yoke constructions are pretty easy to frog, unless you mess up the ratio of sweater ripping to yarn containment.

Three hours and a pile of pill fuzz later, I had four hanks of yarn.

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The Hourglass Sweater is no more. Pictures and commentary forthcoming.

I didn’t rip Rogue today. It took me three hours to rip Hourglass, and frankly that was enough frogging for one evening.

In other news, I’m writing up the pattern for the baby booties, as requested by Liz. But I need a name for the booties! Any suggestions?