Abyssal

Abyssal is my third knit/crochet FO for the year. I like its curved shape.

I should have blocked it ages ago. I was going to use my ironing board but my ironing room plasterbaord ceiling fell because of water seepage from the upstairs bathroom and there was repair work going on in the bathroom upstairs and the ceiling repairs. And since the construction people were here, my husband decided that we might as well paint the ground floor, which has a 3 storey high skylight that required scaffolding. You can imagine the house was in a dusty mess and it was not a good time to block anything. Now that all the work has been done and the house has returned to normal, I managed to block Abyssal on the ironing board.

I knitted Abyssal out of the last 2 balls of green Katia Austral in my stash. I made a mistake somewhere along the way while doing the short rows because I had more stitches left on one side than the other when I ended the short rows, but I coudn't find where I had made the mistake and it didn't look that lop-sided to me, so I just cast off and declared it done.

My Abyssal is more scarf than shawl size. Although I like how it looks like draped over the shoulders, it can also be worn wrapped around the neck, with the ends tucked out of sight, or hanging free.

After knitting Abyssal, I've realised how curved shawls are made. You knit a lacey edge pattern up to the number of repeats to get your desired length. Then you knit short rows in stockinette or garter to get that nice curve. I'm thinking of knitting another curved shawl with a lace edge pattern from one of my lace pattern books. That is, if I don't get distracted by all the other lovely designs out there that I want to knit!