I've got one Zauberball yarn in Cranberry colorway from Sabine (and another one in a different colorway) as a gift, and even though it's supposed to be sock yarn, for me it screamed "lace", since it's single ply yarn, although for that it's rather strong with its nylon contents.
The reason why I still cast on for this shawl was, that I've spied a Zauberball in this color at my LYS, and I knew, if needed, I could get it there. Never mind same dye lot. As it turned out, I've knit the main part with one ball, and the edge with the second ball. Now I have more than half a ball left over.
The main part of this shawl was mind numbingly boring to knit, repeating the leaf pattern over and over. What woke me up from my stupor was the edge though. I dreaded it, I feared it. I had to pick up stitches and the stitch count had to be just right. The instructions did not help me at all. It said, "pick up and knit 242 sts along selvage to lower point of triangle (about 2 sts for every slipped selvage st; see page 38)..." The operative word here would be "about". What does that mean? Either it is, or it isn't. Needless to say, I had to do it several times, with a lot of counting to get the required stitch count. Once that was done, it was smooth sailing.
I like how the edge appears to be striped, sort off, and not obvious pooling.
Here are the specs:
pattern: Triangular scarf in leaf pattern by Nancy Bush from the book "Knitted Lace of Estonia"
yarn: Zauberball in the colorway Cranberries, 420m one ball, 75% wool, 25% polyamid, 1.25 balls
needles: 3mm for the main body, 3.5mm for the edge
size after blocking: 53" x 34" (slightly bigger than the one in the book) and it IS a scarf
start-finish: Nov. 8 - 18 2009
destined: for my mom for Christmas
This was the 4th project I've knit from this book, and there are still more in there, which I like and plan on knitting.
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Ohhh very, very beautyfull - and so lucky to have 2 balls in the same color- that is really freaky for Zauberball!
ReplyDeleteand the other one???? :))))
Grüßle Sabine
it looks gorgeous in the zauberball yarn.
ReplyDeleteThat is gorgeous - the medley of different colors play together beautifully in the lace - not too much but very eyecatching - love it!
ReplyDeleteWow! I love that edging too :) Lovely project. I bought some Zauberball in brighter colours and was going to use it for socks. But seeing this, maybe I need to make a wildly coloured wimple or something.
ReplyDeleteVery lovely. The yarn color you chose especially makes this piece.
ReplyDeleteDein Tuch ist traumhaft schön!!
ReplyDeleteViele Neujahrsgrüße von Heike
Das Muster ist ja wohl traumhaft schön ! Ich hätte ihn aber lieber in grün - blau :-))
ReplyDeleteLG Eva
That's beautiful! I love the red.
ReplyDeleteI'm currently in the middle of my first mind numbingly idiodic starting a project for which I don't have enough yarn, in a yarn that has been discontinued.
yeah. Smart me.
quite lovely! but that edging is fantastic!! the "stripped" pooling couldn't have been more perfect if you tried! =]
ReplyDeletei've been eyeballing that book, now it seems, i really need to get it.
liebe monika,
ReplyDeletedanke für deine e-mail.
ich hoffe, ich finde bald etwas zeit, um auch dir darauf zu antworten.
einstweilen wünsche ich dir, dass das neue jahr dir viel klarheit bringt, dazu mut und kraft und durchhaltevermögen, um so manchen sturm zu überstehen.
herzliche grüße
sendet dir
anita
This shawl is beautiful! Well done!
ReplyDeleteYour shawl is lovely and the color choice is WOW! Good job!
ReplyDeleteOne shawl done for 2010 - 9 more to go.
Very pretty. Love the color combination, ...very warm looking :)
ReplyDeletewow that is really beautiful! you did an awesome job
ReplyDeleteI think Zauberball works beautifully in shawls - yours is no exception. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteIt is just beautiful. Exquisitely so.
ReplyDeleteDid you have any trouble knitting with the Zauberball yarn? I just purchased some of that before Christmas & started a sock and found it split a lot and the two fibers unwound. Do you have that problem?
ReplyDeleteYour scarf is amazing! Did you give it to your Mom this past Christmas or saving it for this year?:)
The shawl is gorgeous! I love the border. :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shawl - I love the way the shades of red played out! I haven't knit anything from the book yet (I've had it since it came out)- I seem to be off of lace shawls lately - but this has caught my interest...hmmm.
ReplyDeleteI love that color. I like how the color repeats are long enough to stripe in shawl without being so short as to detract from the pattern. I've never bought zauerball because I don't like single ply yarns but boy are you tempting me now!
ReplyDeleteThe "scarf " is wonderful - congratulations on a lovely job..
ReplyDeletehmmmm
I have a ball of the cranberry zauerball also....
margieinmaryland
Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it funny, the way we know we do things yet we still do them!!
ReplyDeleteThe shawl is beautiful, I love the pooling!! I would dread all that picking up stitches though, I always have to do button bands two or thee times no matter how hard I try.
Absolutely a heart stopper. You are so funny. I knew exactly what you meant about starting a project, knowing fully well that you probably won't have enough yarn. Maybe we just like the challenge.
ReplyDeleteder Farbverlauf ist doch immer wieder schön. für ein lace-tuch besonders geeignet.
ReplyDeleteein schönes Geschenk dazu.
viele Grüße Elfi
It's gorgeous! You are right the edging with the striping effect is a stunning enhancement to the design!
ReplyDeleteOnly an expert knitter like you could have pull off different colors and dye lots and forced ahead fearlessly and successfully! Well done.
Holy cow. That is a GORGEOUS shawl!
ReplyDeleteThat is Soooo pretty!
ReplyDeleteI love it. I've been debating as to whether or not buy Zauber and this has convinced me. Lovely present.
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful! What a lovely shawl!!
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