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I’ve been so engrossed in “Fitted Raglan Shawl” class that I totally didn’t blog last week!
I was on such a video blog roll, too!
Well. I’ve got some stuff. I’m working on LOTS of videos for class, and I thought I’d share this one with all of you:
Find more videos like this on Fitted Raglan Shawl Class
We’ve been having some discussions in class about how and when to join new yarns. I was always taught to join at the edge of the knitting, but I think that if you use a splice (like the spit splice that I show you in the video) you can just join new yarn anyplace you run out and need to start a new ball. There are certainly as many ways to join / splice yarns as there are knitters, so if you google, you’ll find LOTS of techniques. These are the two that I use the most.
By the way, that’s Cascade 128 in a beautiful light blue, almost silver gray color. LOVE IT for this shawl. I use a bulkier yarn and bigger needles for the video examples so that everything shows up. I’ll add the directions for this bulkier version of the shawl to the pattern when I finish it.