Last week I was lamenting about the other Ishbel I was working on. After hemming and hawing over how much or little I like the variegation in the yarn with this pattern, I have decided not to rip it, but it can stay in my UFO (unfinished objects) drawer for awhile while I work on some other things. Since I only have about 14 rows left to finish it, so ripping it seems like a waste. I really appreciate all of the input from readers on that post.
Instead, I pulled a partially done Ishbel in Araucania Ranco Solid sock yarn (color 105) out of my UFO drawer and decided to work on it so I could satisfy my need to have an Ishbel in my hands sooner than later, and I could get something out of that pile. I wasn’t sure where I was in the lace pattern so I ripped back to the stockinette and got going. I was off work that day, so I finished all of the lace portion in one day and got it on the blocking board. I love it.
I don’t knit with a lot of red yarns, but I like this shade since it’s more on the orange-red than blue-red spectrum. I made the smaller version of the shawl, doing the lace repeat as A,B,A,C,D,E. Some folks opt to do the small stockinette portion with the larger lace or large stockinette portion with the smaller lace, but I just stuck with the pattern. I have some leftover yarn. I sort of hate having leftovers, but I’ll get over it.
I actually even got to wear this at work one day last week since they keep it pretty cool in this library. The temperature is climbing to the upper 90s and 100 this week, so I’m pretty sure all things wool are eliminated from my wardrobe for now.
I love it! I hope that one day I will be a great knitter like yourself 😀
Lovely! I am now having shawl envy :-).
Beautiful, and hooray for being able to get one thing out of the UFO pile. It’s so gorgeous. I have to agree with maiknits2 shawl envy to the extreme!
Lovely, do you have the pattern?
In the second paragraph the “Ishbel” is a link to the pattern page on Ravelry. You can purchase it as a single pattern or part of Ysolda’s Whimsical Little Knits collection. Here is another link to the pattern.
I never knew this could look so great with sock yarn! 😀 (sorry for misunderstanding you in the last posting). Looks great.
I think that this colour looks great with Ishbel. I’ve also knitted these lacy shawls in more variegated yarns, and I wasn’t that thrilled with the result. Go with your instinct and rip that sucker. Life is too short to spend all that time on something you won’t love later.
It’s beautiful! I love it.
Ooh! I like this orange-red, too! Gorgeous!
Cassy, I have serious knitter’s envy. Or, I knit vicariously through you. Either way, I am totally excited to see one of your posts come up in my feed.
love! I’m so nervous to try knitting lace patterns because I feel like I’m still too much in the beginning pattern stages of knitting. That variegated red is amazing!
Looks great!
That lace pattern is absolutely gorgeous in the red. And the red is a very good color on you, too.
What a fanatastic colour! I bet that if/when you finish the other one, it will look like you have two completely different shawls, just by virtue of the yarn choices. Lovely, lovely, lovely. I think I’d carry that around with me even if it were too hot to wear it – there’s always somewhere with a/c on too high.
I like the mottled color, with the lace, especially worn as a scarf.
Nice work! Looks great on you. I’d like to knit this pattern someday!
nicely done, and great pics.
I am in absolute awe of your talent — remarkable work! 🙂
I love the color. Definitely makes you stand out when wearing i:)
I love the color of that Ishbel. I don’t even know what an Ishbel is and love stumbling onto new things. Keep up the inspiration, I’ve began “learning to knit” so many times, I hope someday I can finally finish something I begin (I’ve made a fair share of wash clothes!) and very glad to know others have UFO drawers 😉 be well!
I love to knitm and this very good. Well done!
Great colour! I would love to try some lace knitting, but I like knitting with chunky wool. 🙂
Congratulations on being freshly pressed!
Funny how knitting goes, sometimes I’m really excited to start a project, get a few rows in and then……I get bored. I’ve made my own rule: Finish one project before starting another. It worked pretty good for a while and I managed to not end up with a UFO stash. Alas, I now have 3 sets of needles sitting around with projects on them.
I do love this pattern you’re working and what a wonderful job you’ve done! My vote is that you finish the one that is almost finished and give it to a friend. Can I be your friend????
Just kidding.
Nice job. This reminds me of my mothers crochet work.
Absolutely beautiful! I love it! You do very lovely work!
Very very pretty!
Gorgeous!
Very cool, and congrats on being freshly pressed.
Love that colour! It really suits you.
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Another nice looking Ishbel!
Very pretty, I’ll have to get back into knitting one of these days! 🙂
I have never knit anything, and only stumbled upon this blog (not through stumbleupon, mind you). That being said, this “Ishbel” that you’ve made is really really cool looking. Kudos.
That is so beautiful. Thanks you for sharing. I still want to learn to knit but I’m tackling so many other “I want to learn to…” that it may take awhile to get to it 🙂
Wow! I love it! Do you have an online store?
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Really beautiful!
I love the colour and the pattern!- a great inspiration- as I needed another project in my queue ;O)
Great article, you are very good at it.
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This is gorgeous! (And congrats on the Freshly Pressed!)
Love that color! You are one talented chica. These sort of crafts always ended in knots for me, haha.
It is super adorable you are very talented 🙂
love the colour..!!
This looks gorgeous, you really do have a talent! I used to knit in middle school, but completely dropped it since – you’re an inspiration to start again, it must feel remarkable to wear your own handmade scarf 🙂
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hmm.. looks yummy! TFS the recipe 🙂
Gorgeous! I’m a new knitter and this has inspired me to try even harder to get beyond scarves!
Ishbel is one of my favourite patterns! Yours is gorgeous, love it in that yarn .I’ve made three for other people, I think it’s time I made one for myself!
Knitting can be a difficult thing to do even if you’re one heck of an art-freak, i’m thinking of learning at-least the basics this summer! I love how neatly you’ve carried out the job! Way to go!
the red color looks so wonderful…
Very pretty indeed! I’ve been collecting patterns like this one on Ravelry and might even make it the summer project… considering that summer still hasn’t arrived here it might come handy!
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I love these shawls… I’ve been collecting patterns through Ravelry and have been waiting for a good excuse to start one such project. I might even make it my summer vacation project for those chilly rainy sunless summer evenings…
Please – we don’t have UFO’s, we have, instead, WIP’s – works in progress!!! And my “UFO drawer” is actually a “time out” box! I do like the colors in your shawl though. Sometimes you have to step back in both distance and time, to really get the picture.