Starburst Shawl
January 9th, 2006
Presenting the Starburst Shawl.
Pattern: Starburst Shawl. From the book Modular Knits by Iris Schreier.
Yarn: Artyarn Supermerino in colorway 127.
Needles: Addi-turbos size 8.
Started: October 31st 2005.
Finished: Jan. 4th, 2006.
I pushed through on this through the holidays and I finished it! I’m so proud of myself for just getting it done. And, after blocking, I really like how it has turned out. I could also use it as a scarf, if I wanted to.
The modular pattern looks very interesting. kind of like cross-hatching. I think it’s perfect for any variegated yarn. Actually knitting up the pattern was a bitch, though. I had to constantly count my stitches because I had to make sure I had the right number of stitches on my needles at all time or else the pattern would get messed up. So I could really only do this when I was by myself, with no television, iPod, or chitchatting. That didn’t leave me with very many opportunities to work on it.
This was my first experience with Artyarns and I liked it alright. The yarn does wash up beautifully. No problems after washing it in the delecate cycle with little agitation. It came out of the wash nice and soft. The colorway is okay. I was really into pink and green for awhile but kind of got over it. The color combo is different but very complimentary.
Just a little heads up on some blog maintenance. I am going to be moving my knitting content over to my blog, Blatherskite in the near future. It has just become too difficult to maintain two separate blogs. And maybe you all will find me more interesting if I am posting non-knitting content along with the knitting content 
. I have quite a bit of work to do before the move, but will let you know when it happens and will post a link to everything here.
Happy Monday!
Entry Filed under: Starburst Shawl
5 Comments
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Christie | January 9th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
It looks great! Super cool. At least it’s finally done.
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heather | January 9th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
love the colors and it looks great on you!
I’ll have to add the site to my bloglines!! Very cool.
less is more in 2006
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Karma | January 9th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
OOooh la la! I like it a lot. How many skeins of Supermerino did it take?
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Lolly | January 10th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Those colors are so pretty together! it does look like Starburst
Blog consolidation is the way to go!
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Cathi | January 16th, 2006 at 8:30 am
Love the shawl, I think it looks great. I’ve been wanting to try that colorway for a while, we don’t have many Artyarns suppliers in town, so I just haven’t given in yet, but I do really like your shawl. Looks like it would be great for cooler nights, even inside, to wrap up in.
I’ll follow you wherever you go, Moni- I have problems enough keeping up with one blog of my own to write, I don’t know how you’ve been doing two all this time!