The Nantucket cotton wrap is done.
Yarn: L'Atelier Joy
Fiber: cotton
Pattern: None really. Stripes consisted of alternating 16 rows of white with 8-row stripes of the colors. I had twice as much navy as the other two blues, so the navy was alternated between each color.
Gauge: roughly 15 stitches and 16 rows to 4" on size 10 1/2 needles in seed stitch
Finished Dimensions: 22" by 120".
I actually finished knitting it about a week ago, but the time from completion to photo session dragged on for several reasons. The wrap occupied much of the length of library for several days while blocking. The thick cotton was not the fastest to dry, but I also must admit I did enjoy just admiring it while it lay there, and I may have delayed unpinning slightly longer than was necessary. By the time I did release it from its bonds, my energy for a photo shoot may have waned, although not because I was at all unhappy with the shawl.
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It is unusually large and bulky for a wrap. Wider and shorter and it would have been a blanket. And in fact it may still fulfill a blanket-like role as an oversized snuggly wrap for evenings at home. I love it anyway even if I am not necessarily convinced it will see tons of wear outside the house. It may. I don't yet know. It is long enough that its function, while providing warmth, would fill the role more of a statement piece than an accessory.
In fact, I would have made it a foot longer given my druthers, not necessarily due to a wish for additional length, but merely to use up more yarn. One full skein of the white remains. It was the navy that petered out. In fact I was able to knit 3 fewer rows of navy than of white per skein. Assuming the skeins were the same weight this means that the navy was heavier than the white, and yielded fewer yards per skein. This is not particularly unusual for dark-hued yarns, at least in that it has happened to me enough in the past that I am not surprised. But my math did not account for this, although I did weigh the initial usage in the stripe sequencing. Based on weight, I calculated that I could get one more navy stripe and one more medium blue stripe (for which I do have enough yarn) as well as two more long white stripes. This would have left me with less than half a skein of white, and only small bits of the three other colors. The best laid plans.
Never mind. It is a deliciously cool morning, and I enjoyed my first espresso of the morning, wrapped in this new shawl, watching the sun rise.
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