My Reyna is done and here she is in all her glory!
Pattern: Reyna by Noora Laivola
Needles: US 4
Yarn: Knit Picks Hawthorn Speckle in the Cosmic Speckle Colorway (I used almost an entire skein: 93 grams/332 yards)
Mods: I omitted the very last rows of eyelets to conserve yarn
I knit this project in basically a week or 7 days of active knitting. It FLEW off my needles and I just don’t understand/comprehend how obsessed with this project I was.
I was feeling so proud that I hadn’t made any mistakes during the knitting….and then hubris got me. I was on the second-to-last eyelet row and my eyelets got out of alignment. I had missed one teensy tiny stitch. So I carefully tinked back half a row and fixed it (took me 30 minutes). I then proceeded to re-knit that row and then almost the whole last row of eyelets and that knitter niggling started in my brain. I was definitely not going to have enough yarn. So I tinked back two and a half LONG rows to where I would omit the last RS and WS eyelet rows and the started the garter. I was basically back to where I had tinked back to the first time and this took me an hour. But I managed to finish the garter and bind off with just a small nugget of yarn to tuck into my memory blanket!
I washed and blocked this in just under two hours thanks to the late September Kansas heatwave and my husband’s fan. I don’t have blocking wires and you can see where I placed my pins. But I don’t care…it’s all mine now! I cannot wait for fall to when I can wear this beauty out and about! This project really has kicked my knitting mojo into high gear. On to the next thing!!!
Happy Knitting!
Sounds like you were enraptured by the pattern! 🙂 It looks wonderful, congratulations!
Beautiful!!
Lovely! And hopefully Fall is here now!! And maybe to stay this time?
It’s gorgeous!! I’ve worn mine and it’s as much fun to wear as it was to knit:)
good job on the fast finish of this great shawl! Two things to invest in – a set of blocking wires and a good food scale. Every time I make Reyna, I start weighing yarn on that last section, so I can use every inch of yarn and not skimp on the shawl, but not run into the trouble you did. It is tedious to tink! But anyway, I love your end result, it is pretty. When do you start the next one? 🙂
I may or may not be eyeing a DK weight garter shawl next…..
I just did a nice easy fast one, rainbow warrior. Not a purl stitch to be found! It was great. Takes 2 skeins of fingering weight and I was done, picot edge and all in less than a month. There is something to be said for garter!
You are so fast, and it’s beautiful!
It had a beautiful rustic fall look!
Congrats
Beautiful new shawl