MORE ON THE SHAWL

This is the shawl I started last week Saturday.  Here are some more details on that project and pattern.

The yarn is Lion Brand "Scarfie" colour 216, Cream/Silver.  There are 5.3 oz/150g in a ball, 312 yds./285 m., gauge: 14sts/4" or 10 cm. on US #9 needles or metric 5.5.  The needles I'm using are Knit Picks, Interchangeable Rainbow Wood Needles.  There are 9 sets of points, sizes US 4/3.5 mm to US 11/8.0mm.  They came with four cables, but no cable connectors. The wood points are very, very smooth and that makes for fast knitting.

These points screw onto the cables, which gives a very smooth join.  The stitches don't get "hung up" on the join while you knit, so the knitting moves along very smoothly.  That's such an advantage!  But there was a problem with them early on.  I hadn't noticed that the points tended to "screw loose" from the cables while I was knitting.  Suddenly the right hand point came loose from the cable and stitches were hanging off the gap (no picture)!  I transferred the right hand stitches, already knit, to the left hand needle and reattached the point to the cable.  After that experience, I "rescrew" the join after each row--no more problems.  Here you see the point and the cable partly unscrewed.

I especially appreciate these needles because I used to have a set of "Denise" interchangeable.  That join between the needle and the cable was quite bumpy and stitches tended to get hung up on the join.

This morning I finished the first ball of yarn and started on the second one.  It was important to find out how far the first ball covered, to know if the second ball would be sufficient to finish the shawl.  I think it will work.  If it came up short I would need to buy a third ball, but I'm pretty sure there is enough yarn to finish.

When joining yarn I make a knot and a bow on the wrong side of the work.  

When the piece is finished I will go back, untie the bow and knot and weave in the ends of yarn.