Well ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, give a warm welcome to... (Cue fanfare and drums)... Brickless!!!
This little gem was begun back when I visited my parents over the May bank holiday ( the other one, not the one just gone), I discovered over Christmas that a shawl makes for a perfect travel project, mostly because I'm still too nervous about getting DPNs past airport security and have not mastered the magic loop for socks yet. So I decided it was the turn of the Brickless pattern (by Martina Behm on Ravelry). I also wanted to make it up using Drops Alpaca, which I had used for the Maluka shawl over Christmas, and even though Brickless asks for a bigger ply, the pattern converts to 4ply really easily.
It's basically three patterned rows with increases/decreases at appropriate places, so really easy to knit sans pattern reading every few minutes.
I won't lie, this felt like it took an age to knit up, as I got closer to the edge I also decided to add a splash of colour with the teal Drops Alpaca I had leftover from my last shawl. Only because I used it as a safety thread for travelling and thought the colour combination was awesome!
See safety thread top left.. It's a great knit though, and I actually loved that at a pre-blocking stage, this shawl is just a big wobbly lump!
But it was finally finished last Thursday, and immediately after sewing in any loose ends it went around my neck... And has been a permanent fixture since!
Sooo... Any complaints about the pattern? Nope. Any adjustments to the pattern? Just to keep knitting until each row of pattern was a good size to compensate for rubbish gauge matching. Would I knit it again? Hells yeah! I'm planning a big ol DK one for winter too!!
Conclusions... This shawl is awesome!!
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