Hummingbird Shard
Finished
April 19, 2017
May 7, 2017

Hummingbird Shard

Project info
Shard by Rosemary (Romi) Hill
Knitting
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
Darleen
olliesdar on ravelry
Needles & yarn
US 3 - 3.25 mm
SweetGeorgia Yarns CashLuxe Fine
7 yards in stash
0.98 skeins = 392.9 yards (359.3 meters), 110 grams
130911001
Red-purple
Stitch Space
October 18, 2013
Notes

Why not? Looks interesting and the green will be the shard color. I have 13-14” of the green for the run.

OMG. This is fun! After figuring out this pattern, I was able to pretty much knit without looking at the pattern.

Which side to put the working yarn on the short rows?
The first stitches (8, 6, 4) leave the yarn where it lies, don’t bring it forward no matter if you’re on RS or WS row. On the last 8 stitches of the short row, bring the yarn to the front no matter if you’re on a RS or WS row.

Modification
I quit at 10 wedges then picked up stitches on the cast on side and made another bobble and wedge so I had bobbles on all of the tips.

How to knit this pattern

  • After reading the pattern over, do the cast on.
  • Then start the wedge instructions, but when you get to your shard color while you’re knitting the wedge, do the shard part of the pattern, then continue with the wedge pattern.
  • Don’t stress this pattern. It’s supposed to be organic looking, so if things don’t line up or the numbers don’t work out, don’t sweat it.
  • Something that helps is just keeping track of your WS and RS rows so you don’t get turned around when you’re doing a shard.
  • The MB is make bobble and it’s in the abbreviations on page 3. You make the bobble in the very last stitch of Row 21. All those stitches go in that very last single stitch. (See Yarnophile’s bobble instructions below)
  • The stretchy bind off instructions are also in the abbreviations on page 3.
  • To finish the shawl, bind off all the stitches, picking up the stitches that you have reserved from doing row 22. I used a locking stitch marker on each row 22 to hold the stitches instead of having a third needle hanging uncomfortably off my knitting. These worked great.

Yarnophile’s bobble instructions:

…make 4 stitches in one stitch (plus 1 ktbl) so you have five stitches on the needle, then turn so the other side of the work is facing you, slip the first stitch with the yarn in back, k3, k1 tbl, then turn again to the first side (all this time you’re only dealing with those 5 stitches/loops you made into 1 stitch), slip 1 with the yarn in the back, k 3, and k1 tbl again, THEN finish the bobble by lifting the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th stitch over the 1st one closest to the tip.

Approx. 20” x 26” unblocked
Approx. 26” x 36” blocked

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Finished
April 19, 2017
May 7, 2017
 
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by SweetGeorgia Yarns
Fingering
70% Merino, 20% Cashmere goat, 10% Nylon
400 yards / 112 grams

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  • Originally queued: April 5, 2015
  • Project created: April 19, 2017
  • Finished: May 7, 2017
  • Updated: April 4, 2018
  • Progress updates: 6 updates