Whisper Wrap
Finished
May 27, 2012
January 5, 2013

Whisper Wrap

Project info
Whisper Wrap by Purl Soho
Knitting
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
me!
1 size
Needles & yarn
US 3 - 3.25 mm
Grignasco MerinoSilk
215 yards in stash
0.86 skeins = 1318.4 yards (1205.5 meters), 86 grams
White
Busy Hands
May 18, 2012
Notes

Nice easy to memorize pattern, relaxing to knit once I got all 481 stitches on. It’s going to be like a gossamer cape, oh so sweet and light and airy.

I had some trouble initially when I dropped a stitch at the yarn-over site…and it ran too much and unraveled more of the diagonal lacy part than I could figure out how to repair, so I frogged it back to the beginning.

This time, I’m using a lifeline, but on the straight needles, especially so many teeny stitches crammed onto a shortish straight…I’m avoiding the lifeline. I currently have one in, like 20 rows ago! l

New plan -- switch over to a circular needle just to get the lifeline in and then switch back if I find the circular joins pull on the knitting.

New plan of a circular was superior. With that number of stitches, working on the straights was too much packing on and off the needle. I have had a little trouble with dropped stitches being hard to repair in the lacy parts, so even tho it is a simple pattern, I am maintaining the lifeline. Likely wooden needles would have been a better choice for me.

Thinking this through, I started jonesing for a Knitpicks Options circular that would let me thread the lifeline through the needle itself, but I’m using a size 3 needle, and the ones that do that are the interchangeables that start with size 4! So close!

Helpful tips:

  • Have a couple of side projects so you can get the gratification of finishing something!
  • Add stitch markers for the start of the five stitch garter border, easy to forget.

I experimented with a couple of bind offs. I cast off by knitting two and then knitting the two stitches together, knitting one and then knitting the two stitches together. That was neither too loopy nor too tight.

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Finished
May 27, 2012
January 5, 2013
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by Grignasco
Cobweb
75% Merino, 25% Silk
1533 yards / 100 grams

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  • Project created: May 14, 2012
  • Finished: February 2, 2013
  • Updated: January 16, 2019