The Good News, and The Bad News
The good news is, The chapel veil/shawlette is finished. The bad news is, it will not publish completely until July 15. That is when Issue 2 of Spindle and Wheel will publish.
There has been some minor disagreements on the content of the next issue, maybe you guys can clear it up for us. I wrote an article on how to get a web-based business started, what to do, and not do for the best chances of success. I thought that you readers would find this information helpful for your own sites to sell your handmade products. Beau feels it is off topic. I can see his point, and he can see mine, so we aren’t really sure what to do now. What do you think?
Now for the best part, a picture of the completed shawlette-
I’m sorry I don’t have it modeled, it really looks quite elegant on, but I can’t take a picture of it on me, and so you will have to wait a bit.
This is a perfect first lace project, it only has a few stitches, yarn over, knit and purl, knit two together and slip on knit one passover. There are also a couple of knit three togethers and slip 1 knit two together pass overs.
All in all, it used about 2 ounces at around 60 to 70 yards per ounce (about sport or fingering) and knitted up extremely fast. The pattern never changes, and so once you get that figured out, you can go on auto knitter and do just fine. This is good for me since I can’t count past about 2. At any rate, the full pattern will be published in Issue 2, but if you want to start early, drop me an email, and I’ll send it. allena at spindleandwheel dot com.
Diane said,
June 24, 2007 @ 1:23 pm
The shawl looks gorgeous! Well done.
Not sure about the web-article argument - I can see both sides but I don’t think it’s too far off topic. I know I would be interested to read it!
Toni said,
June 27, 2007 @ 4:21 pm
What a beautiful shawl - how long did you work on it and what fiber did you use? As to the web-based business, I think it would be a very positive move to begin discussing this subject for many people and how to avoid the pitfalls. There might be a handful or more that would be very interested in this topic and the information that is produced from its discussion. I view this as a positive move on your part to bring it to our attention. Those that are not interested will just pass over it, or not. Good luck.
Allena said,
June 27, 2007 @ 4:34 pm
Toni,
The shawl worked up very fast, I was very pleased with that. I used a 50% colored merino and 50% angora. I spun it up to about a light sport or fingering weight. Somewhere around 15-18 wpi. I used size 11 needles. It probably took about 5-8 hours. I wish I had made it a bit larger for myself, but it is perfect for my daughter to wear, and it looks nice on me, too, but could be a bit larger. It is so hard to tell if it’s big enough, because it stretches so much when you block. Ah well.
susan said,
July 3, 2007 @ 6:06 pm
I would be interested in the article. I keep forgetting to check the blog
I love your tutorials. The ones on hand carding and fiber blending, in particular, have helped me tremendously.
Something I would like to see at some point would be an article discussing the different types of drop spindles.