RBTL - the finished article

Almost seven months after starting, and having fixed a small dropped stich hole, my RBTL is finished.

The picture doesn't show it too well but it is huge.

It's taken a fair few stitch markers...

And many rows were recorded...

But it's all been worth it as it is beautiful...

Now all I have to do is figure out how to wear it and find something else crafty to fill the gap left in my life (who am I kidding I have a list of things which need doing).

The Read Between the Lines pattern by Tammy Canavan-Soldaat can be found on Ravelry.

2000 metres of yarn...the ongoing saga of RBTL!

I have now been working on the RBTL shawl for 5 months...

...it's humongous...

...the colours work well together...

...and the end is in sight (if you have binoculars!).

RBTL - 3 months on

Still going. I think I'm about two thirds done, with about half the yarn left. Still enjoying it but seriously hoping it's not going to take me another six months...I've got plenty more things to do!

Read Between the Lines - Week ???

I'm still going with my knitted Read Between the Lines shawl. The make-a-long started on Jan 31st and Scheepjes have now started another crochet-a-long to mark he upcoming wedding.

I won't be joining in with the new project, I'm just about halfway through the original one...

I think the colour change is getting more visible although this does seem to be one of the more subtle combinations.

Definitely more obvious when heaped in its storage box!

Still a significant amount of the whirls left, and some good colour changes to come.

Read Between the Lines - Week 3

Week One

Week Two

Week Three

Progress is happening but slowly due to reduced knitting time this week. The pattern is easy and enjoyable and it's fun waiting for the colour to change (which is happening strand by strand).

Read Between the Lines - Week 2

There is a craft I can do with all the kitchen work going on - knitting ( and EPP but I haven't started that project yet) (and cross stitch but that's well and truly relegated to the UFO pile)(and crochet I suppose but it doesn't seem the time to learn a new craft). Anyway...

I have managed to get quite a lot done on my RBTL shawl due to dedicating my Friday sewing time to knitting (and binge watching Scandal) and some time off work.

From this

To this

The yarn colour gradually changes strand by strand, the point at which a new coloured strand is added is known as a #Fuzzbuzz in the make-a-long (MAL) I'm part of for this shawl.

So far only one #fuzzbuzz per yarn whirl for me, but plenty of yarn to go!

Read between the lines

I'm sure I had something planned to do next on my list of knitting projects but as I've already said I fell for the persuasive powers of Facebook and decided to knit a Read Between the Lines shawl using the previously posted and totally gorgeous Scheepjes Whirls - 2000m of yarn in all.

First thing first I actually followed the instructions and did two test swatches to decide on the correct needles. Unfortunately this meant I couldn't use my beautiful metallic green circulars, but luckily the correct size is a set of rainbow wooden knitpicks.

This is about 30 rows in. I chose to go with the inside of the purple and the outside of the strawberry.

And this is after about 150 rows, taken from two angles to show the illusion effect. At least another 200 rows to go!