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[bubosquared]

As promised, pictures of the finished shawl, plus something I did a few months ago:

Triangular Scarf One The finished scarf. You can sort of see the pistures in this one, but not quite. Stupid dark colours. Stupid crappy camera.
Triangular Scarf Two Modelling the scarf. Ignore the weird look on my face.
Triangular Scarf Three View from the back.
Cross-Stitched Highland Coo I picked up this wee cross-stitching set for a fridge magnet on holiday with my parents this summer. Turned out rather nice, I'd say.

Man, my camera is crap.

[ETA] It's 03:22 in the morning.

(Partial) Stash One The result of an evening of skeining and balling yarn. Left to right: - About 140m of rainbow yarn, bought fot 50p as scrap yarn; - About 750m (800g) of teal/blue (actual colour is a bit lighter than it looks in the picture) Aran yarn, very nice and probably destined to become another triangual shawl; - Roughly 1,000m (800g) (including the ball) of red Aran yarn (actual colour is a touch darker than it looks in the picture--have I mentioned my camera is crap?) for Gryffindor scarves and other projects; - A ball of a bit over 200m (100g) of dark yellow / golden yellow Aran yarn, actually two balls of 50g meant for double-knitting, for Gryffindor scarves and other projects. Not pictured: Another six 50g skeins/balls of the yellow, plus assorted scraps and leftovers, yet to be skeined and/or balled.

At least now I'm vaguely organised, and prepared to start the Gryffindor scarves. Though I'll probably need to go and buy a smaller pair of circs for those. Man, I really need to buy one of those Needlemaster things.[/ETA]

Comments

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Use a thinner yarn than I did, though. It's better for that pattern. :)

[carelessmemory.livejournal.com]

Ah. So, how thick was your yarn?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Very thick. Like, for size 4-5 needles. Makes the shawl a bit too stiff for my liking.

[carelessmemory.livejournal.com]

Hm. Definitely going for thinner then, I don't want too stiff. I tried different size needles and liked knitting with the 3 and 3,5 ones best anyway. :)