A wee posting to show you that I can knit as well as spin. The Buds of May shawl (using the Falkland wool) is coming on a little bit slowly for various reasons, but here's a little glimpse.
It's growing a little each day as I snatch a bit of time to sit down with it, but the main thing that is slowing me down is the way the pattern is written. It's a chart. With lots of squares containing little symbols. Like a crossword puzzle with squiggles instead of letters. I think I'm chart-dyslexic. Help!
The only way I can cope with this pattern is by sitting down with a pen and paper and "translating/transcribing" each row into written knitting instructions. This takes a while. So far I have four A4 sheets of instructions. These will probably get me a quarter of the way through. On the other hand, maybe that's why it's written as a chart - imagine the size of the pattern otherwise!
Here's another photo, just to prove it's grown a bit more, which also happens to be the final line-up of spinning achieved during the Tour de Fleece.
It doesn't look an awful lot for three weeks of spinning.
It's growing a little each day as I snatch a bit of time to sit down with it, but the main thing that is slowing me down is the way the pattern is written. It's a chart. With lots of squares containing little symbols. Like a crossword puzzle with squiggles instead of letters. I think I'm chart-dyslexic. Help!
The only way I can cope with this pattern is by sitting down with a pen and paper and "translating/transcribing" each row into written knitting instructions. This takes a while. So far I have four A4 sheets of instructions. These will probably get me a quarter of the way through. On the other hand, maybe that's why it's written as a chart - imagine the size of the pattern otherwise!
Here's another photo, just to prove it's grown a bit more, which also happens to be the final line-up of spinning achieved during the Tour de Fleece.
It doesn't look an awful lot for three weeks of spinning.
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