Sol Top (Stash Project.3)

Project recap

• Ravelry project page
• Time spent: 37 hours
• Yarn: Isager Yarn Bomulin, Colourway 40
• Needle: US 4/3.5mm
• Pattern: Sol
• Designer: Jaq Cieslak

This is my second stash project to use up my left-over Bomulin yarn from Isager.

The pattern itself is pretty straightforward and I really enjoy knitting the beautiful lace pattern. I used My Row Counter app to knit the lace chart - this app not only supports multiple counters that can be linked together, but also has the most powerful highlight to tailor the lace chart. When I click +1 row, the highlighted line automatically moved up one row as well:

Measurement and yarn estimate

I made the cropped version because I’m tiny :).

• Body: two and half lace chart repeat, stop after row 17. It measures appx. 10’’ before blocking
• Front/back shaping: continue from body, total 44 rows
• The full body measures appx. 16.5’’ before blocking
• I gave it a gentle stretch during blocking, so the photo above appears longer than its pre-blocking size.

As I neared the end of the body, I estimated how many more rows I could knit with the remaining yarn. I ended up with a bit more left over than expected, since the lace section used less yarn than I had calculated. If I had taken that into consideration, I might have the courage to knit few more rows and this will be the most perfect statsh project ever. But it was still within my estimate, so I’m very happy with how it turned out.

New techniques learned

• Modified version of 3 needle bind-off (though I didn’t use it eventually)