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Busyhands
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SerMom
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 Posted - 02/13/2005 : 02:04:24 AM
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Or, you could make your own chart.
Barbara
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Busyhands
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Posted - 02/13/2005 : 10:02:32 PM
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I may resort to that...I hear that the book's charts have a lot of errors in them. Blegh. Hm. Perhaps I should lay in a stock of extra-strong coffee...
Lin |
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Wen
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Busyhands
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Posted - 02/14/2005 : 08:32:29 AM
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I belong to a shawl list, and the ladies there told me the book has charts in it, but that they are chock-full of mistakes. I am thinking I'd rather do the work of charting it myself than try and find the errors in theirs. I don't relish doing it but I COVET that shawl and I don't like working from written instructions.
Lin |
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Lace Lunatic
Gabber Extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 02/14/2005 : 10:56:41 AM
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The charting of that lovely creation shouldn't be too daunting if done one section at a time. The good thing is that an hour or so of charting should provide at least two weeks' worth of knitting! What has me puzzled is why anyone would want to take the time to knit that delicate shawl out of sock yarn? Good luck with it and don't forget to show us the end result!
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mew
Chatty Knitter
Canada
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Posted - 02/14/2005 : 11:32:30 AM
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Well being a Patons pattern, it would only make sense to call for Patons yarn. The only one that knits up to a gauge of about 26 sts/4" is their sock yarn since they don't produce any other fingering weight yarn.
I guess if it's sock yarn it'll hold up better than say a pure merino due to some nylon content, and it might be machine washable too (as many sock yarns are). |
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SerMom
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Posted - 02/14/2005 : 4:29:41 PM
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Hmm, I wonder how my Elann baby cashmere would look in this? I don't often see shawl patterns I want to make.
Of course, then I run into the "what do I do with it?" problem, since I don't wear shawls. 
Barbara
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edelsma
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Canada
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Posted - 02/14/2005 : 6:49:38 PM
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Ooooh Baarbara,
But I do!
Margaret in Waterloo, Ontario
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When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.... Confucius~~~
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mew
Chatty Knitter
Canada
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Posted - 02/14/2005 : 7:29:16 PM
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I just started earlier on some mystery stash yarn I've been meaning to do something with for a few months now.
... I hope that Canadian Living corrected the pattern mistakes as on the Patons website, there appear to be many problems with the Heirloom Shawl.
And if you're used to knitting in patterns that don't use yfwd and sl1, k1, psso terminology, just copy/paste the pattern into microsoft Word and use it to find and replace those terms with YO and ssk to make things easier read. |
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Busyhands
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Posted - 02/14/2005 : 9:11:54 PM
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Thanks for the support, everybody! I guess the chart isn't going to draw itself and I might as well just jump in. Hmmm...I've got some lime green sport-weight wool a bit thicker than what they call for but not by too much, it'll just be a bit bigger than theirs. I think that might look nice with the leafy part of the pattern. I'd rather keep my sock yarn for socks.
Barbara, I think your Baby Cashmere would be PERFECT!! It might even come out so nice you'd start coming up with excuses to wear a shawl! And if not, well, one of your friends here on the forum might be willing to take it in and give it a good home...
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mew
Chatty Knitter
Canada
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Posted - 02/15/2005 : 12:39:05 AM
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So there is one mistake I found so far, Part 1 row 19 should start off as:
"K1B, p2, *k1b, [YO, ssk] twice, ..."
Otherwise the both edges won't be symmetrical, and there won't be enough stitches left on the needles to finish the row as written. |
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Lace Lunatic
Gabber Extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 02/15/2005 : 09:51:14 AM
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Lin
My previous comment about the sock yarn was based on the fact that the shawl, as lovely as it is, looks fairly weighty in the photo (look at the way the lower edge drapes)and the nylon in sock yarn would limit the amount of openness that could be imparted to the pattern in the dressing process. The lime-green sport weight yarn sounds very pretty. Will you mind if the shawl ends up being a solid weight on your shoulders rather than a gentle one?
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Busyhands
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Posted - 02/15/2005 : 8:39:54 PM
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Thanks, mew and Suzanne! No, I don't mind if it's on the heavy side - I usually prefer big cuddly shawls anyway and if they are pretty and lacey, so much the better! I didn't get started charting today as it was my day to sit and knit at the LYS and then belly-dancing class in the evening...but tomorrow is a new day!
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Shelob
Chatty Knitter
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Posted - 02/17/2005 : 10:39:32 PM
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I'm in love and was just looking for a pattern! Thanks for the updates and the translations. I'll let you know when I get started on this one!
~Shelob
"'Tis to create and in creating live
A being more intense that we endow
With form our fancy, gaining as we give
The life we image, even as I do now."
--Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III
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mew
Chatty Knitter
Canada
227 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2005 : 11:01:21 AM
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Just a warning about this pattern:
There's the one error in Panel 1 row 19 I mentioned before.
Also on row 45, there's another error after the second asterisk. In order to stay in pattern, I've had to modify it slightly (and terminology will be different since I changed all the yfwd to YO and changed sl1, k1, psso to ssk to make reading the pattern easier)
Anyway, from the end of the *...* YO, k1, k2tog, YO twice, ssk, k2tog, YO twice, SSK, k2tog....
Both of those errors are kind of minor, in that they're rather easily fixed.
The biggest problem I have so far involves panel 3 as written.
I've spent hours trying to count stitches from the pattern, and from what I've gathered, there's a mistake somewhere that I'm just not seeing.
Panel 3
row 9: As written, the row should finish with 155 stitches on the needle.
row 11: As written, the row needs 153 stitches to complete. I don't know where those 2 stitches are supposed to go. If I knit the row as written, the pattern gets messed up, so I had to throw in an extra 2 decreases to stay in pattern.
According to the pattern, and counting stitches, I should finish row 11 with 167 stitches. BUT with the changes made to stay in pattern, I only have 165.
row 13: Needs 167 stitches to be knit.
I've done 9 and 11 repeatedly, but I just can't find any other way to make it work. Maybe I should move on with my modifications and see if I can make row 13 work somehow.
It just has me wondering if the problems now will create more problems in subsequent panels.
I tried leaving a comment/suggestion for Canadian Living, and they forwarded my concerns to Patons, who said the following:
"Pattern of Heirloom Shawl is more then 5 years out in the market and all mistakes were picked up before 2nd re-print of Patons Book (by now we have a number of re-prints - this book is the best seller).
Canadian Living published this pattern last year, what means all corrections are picked up."
Which wasn't very helpful at all.
... ARGH.
I'll put it down for now and see if I'll get the courage to wade through this mess later.
Thankfully this isn't very nice yarn, or all the ripping/reknitting would have probably killed it by now. |
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mew
Chatty Knitter
Canada
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Posted - 02/20/2005 : 11:28:18 AM
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Ok, so in order to fix the problem with stitch numbers for panel 3 rows 9 and 11...
There's a part of row 11 that is written as [yfwd, k1b, yfwd, k4] twice.
To stay in pattern, it should be something along the lines of: yfwd, k1b, yfwd, k1, k2tog, k1, yfwd, k1b, k1, ssk, k1 |
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ada
New Pal
Netherlands
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Posted - 06/10/2005 : 12:46:18 PM
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Hi,
This pattern is really beautiful and i would love to knit it. I was thinking of charting it out but i've never done that before. Maybe you could help me out. Or point me in some directions so i can get it to work for me.
Thanks
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