Icelandic Shawl

Although the original looks like a horse blanket to me, the design was appealing enough (and free!) for me to raid the stash for a bit of variegated Richmore Count 10 mohair.


It's not a very exciting knit, especially towards the end, which consists of a bazillion rows of k3tog, then k1p1k1 into one stitch. The yarn is so soft, though, that handling the knitting is a luxurious experience. It's also my favorite shawl design that starts at the bottom with the maximum number of stitches and decreases to the neck edge. So as I get more and more bored, the rows get shorter and shorter. Then it's turned upside down and the edging is knitted on the provisional cast-on stitches.

I am about three-quarters done with the body and have used only 500 meters of yarn, which will leave me enough of this yarn to use for another project.

One tip: k1p1k1 is a lot easier if you use Norwegian Purl for the center stitch.

Still plodding away on the Spider King edging. I think I have knitted sixteen miles of it so far, and am almost at the first corner.