Here's another shawl scarf made using a lightweight yarn and over-sized knitting needles
This is a Paton's Divine yarn that I held onto for several years while deciding the right project to use it for. It's a super soft mint green. I used the entire skein. Again, start by casting on 3 or 5 stitches and increasing at the beginning and end of every other row. I did this in stockinette and did a M1 (make one) after a 5 stitch garter edge and before a 5 stitch garter edge on the knit side then purled between the garter edges on the wrong side.
M1 is done by using the knitting needle to reach down and grab the piece of yarn between the two stitches between the two needles, bring the strand up to the left handed needle and knit through the back. It's a nearly invisible increase. The KFB increase works here as well because it's done right next to a garter section so the purl looking stitch of the KFB pretty much blends in with the garter stitch edge.
Using size 15 needles, I knit in stockinette with the 5 stitch garter edge until I was almost out of yarn, being sure to allow enough yarn to bind off. Bind off loosely. Doing a K2tog, put stitch on right needle back to left needle, then K2tog across makes for a nice, loose bind off. Doing the passing the right handed needle's stitch over the just knitted stitch makes for a too tight bind off for this.
The Patons Divine yarn skein had 129 m/142 yds 100 g/3 1/2 ozs. The color is called Frosted Green. And for some reason it shows it as a chunky yarn at (5). But it's not chunky. It's very thin foundation with halo type clumps. There's an actual date on the skein. 2007. Yeah, I held onto that yarn far too long. It's a lovely, super, super soft shawl.
This is a Paton's Divine yarn that I held onto for several years while deciding the right project to use it for. It's a super soft mint green. I used the entire skein. Again, start by casting on 3 or 5 stitches and increasing at the beginning and end of every other row. I did this in stockinette and did a M1 (make one) after a 5 stitch garter edge and before a 5 stitch garter edge on the knit side then purled between the garter edges on the wrong side.
M1 is done by using the knitting needle to reach down and grab the piece of yarn between the two stitches between the two needles, bring the strand up to the left handed needle and knit through the back. It's a nearly invisible increase. The KFB increase works here as well because it's done right next to a garter section so the purl looking stitch of the KFB pretty much blends in with the garter stitch edge.
Using size 15 needles, I knit in stockinette with the 5 stitch garter edge until I was almost out of yarn, being sure to allow enough yarn to bind off. Bind off loosely. Doing a K2tog, put stitch on right needle back to left needle, then K2tog across makes for a nice, loose bind off. Doing the passing the right handed needle's stitch over the just knitted stitch makes for a too tight bind off for this.
The Patons Divine yarn skein had 129 m/142 yds 100 g/3 1/2 ozs. The color is called Frosted Green. And for some reason it shows it as a chunky yarn at (5). But it's not chunky. It's very thin foundation with halo type clumps. There's an actual date on the skein. 2007. Yeah, I held onto that yarn far too long. It's a lovely, super, super soft shawl.
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