This week, I’m working on a simple shawl pattern I found at MDSW. It was my birthday present from my DH and is that kind of lightweight summer shawlette that’s perfect when you live in a land of heavy air conditioning (NoVa). It’s called Surf Escapades<\/a> by Jacqueline P. Jones for Carodan Farm<\/a>. Inspired by Chincoteague and Assateague Islands, the pattern yarn<\/a> was (not surprisingly) sold out, but we found some Mini Mochi (#317)<\/a> that subbed perfectly. Shockingly perfectly.<\/p>\n Score!<\/p>\n I’m about halfway through (Rav here<\/a>) and really enjoying the pattern. It’s not simple, or easily memorizable the way some of the trending patterns are, but it fits my needs perfectly, hangs in a way that will work for my summer shoulders, and is lovely in the great, light, sea-foam-ocean-colored blend that’s striping-up nicely.<\/p>\n If you’re a new lace knitter<\/strong>, know that the “B” stitches (knit through back of loop) are there to twist previous yarn-overs. This tightens the patterning nicely to give the yarn-over holes crisp outlines, but it also means that you can tell if you’re getting off-pattern-stitch-count because you’ll hit a B on a pattern and realize that you’re about to twist a regular old stitch. This helps a lot. Stitch markers are also a mercy\u2014though you’ll have to fiddle with them in some rows as the YO\/SSKs that appear at the end\/beginning of some rows cross over the markers (when the ssk takes one st from before the marker and one after).<\/p>\n Aside from that, I’d say this is a lovely pattern for a new lace knitter as the weight of the yarn keeps it from being fiddly, and the full size from being too overwhelming. For a practiced lace knitter it’s easy TV knitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m always knitting. I should post more. Therefore, WIP Wednesdays! To learn more about the meme, visit Tami Amis’ blog post describing the gig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,10],"tags":[326,386,385],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-fun","category-knitting","category-shawls","tag-shawl","tag-summer","tag-wipwed","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"tami_wip\"](\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tami_wip1.jpg\")
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