Since it is all snowy today, I had some time to take pictures of the tiger eye lace scarf after it was re-blocked.The yarn is Aurora Yarn Whisper which is a bit smaller than the pattern calls for. I used size 5 Addi Lace points to knit it. I think it used maybe a quarter of the yarn. The rest is going to be another scarf.
The start was a bit rough. The first set of eyes kept getting me. The third time was the charm. After about 3 repeats, it started going fairly smoothly. I knit two pieces and grafted them together with the Russian graft out of Knitting From The North Sea. The graft isn't shown because it didn't turn out exactly like I wanted. I may need practice or maybe variegated yarn isn't suite to this graft.
Each side has 18 repeats. If I was going to do it again I would drop to 17. The reason is that the first time, I blocked the scarf I choose 6 inches wide which led to 86 inches plus. Decide this is a bit long for a random person. So, I re-blocked at 8 inches wide and about 72 inches long. A friend mention that long scarfs are in. This is good because I an not going to shorten it.
I like the pattern and would knit it again with slight thicker yarn using a different graft.
Just looking at it, the pattern also reminds me of owl eyes.
2 comments:
Such a beautiful scarf. I am dying to try it, but the links to the pattern do not work. Could you kindly send me the pattern? I'm sure mine won't turn out as lovely as yours, but I would like to try. And it reminds me of owl eyes too!
ejschoenfelder@yahoo.com
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tiger-eyes-lace-scarf
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