Anyone for a Forged Joy motif? |
As regular readers of this blog may remember, I'm captaining a wee Ravellenics Game team in my group on Ravelry. Since the games don't officially start for a week, I've combined those events with my current Romantique join-a-long (JAL). As part of the JAL, I've been working on two versions of the Forged Joy Shawl, and I thought it would be instructive to see how the motifs look using differing yarn weights:
The smaller one on the left is one of my model thank-yous, so even losing approximately 8" of wingspan on each side, I know the final shawl will still be plenty big. Hopefully I'll be able to take photos of each once they are complete so that you will be able to see that both sizes are quite sufficient for a shawl. I suspect that this pattern would also work well with a heavy fingering/light sportweight yarn, but I wouldn't go much heavier than that.
I do hope you'll head on over to Andrea's blog - Wisdom Begins in Wonder - and see what other fibers people are working with this week.
Only one week before the start of the Sochi games - will I get this done before then? |
These are very pretty.
ReplyDeleteI am always surprised by how big of a difference a small change in gauge makes.
ReplyDeleteWowza! and this is why I'm always told to gauge swatch. Yikes!
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see these side by side. I love Centolavaggi for crochet and have been thinking I need to find some more of it.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how different yarn sizes and hooks can do to the same pattern, they are both lovely!
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