I recently shared a video on YouTube about a blocking day I had this past summer where I blocked three shawls at one time, on the same table and a project that I never show in the video.
I’m here to follow up and share how each of those pieces turned out and where the patterns are available so that you can stitch your own.
Pineapple doily
The piece that I never show in the video is a pineapple lace doily. I crocheted it to be a photo prop with a wooden gray tray that I have. So far I haven’t used it and the photo below is the first photo it has been in.
I’m sorry I don’t have the info for the pattern. It is an old pattern in a book.
Feather and Fan
I did decide that this pattern will not see the light of day. I am happy to have this squishy soft piece, but I do not want to write the pattern for it. I ripped out the second version I had going that was beaded and put everything back in stash.
I really enjoyed knitting this piece. It started out to be more difficult than I thought it should be at the beginning. There is more about that in this post. I used fingering weight 100% American wool that I ordered from Birch Hollow Fibers. I used six different colors of the Sojourner Sock yarn for this piece. I love the way it turned out. The next time I block it, I will be more careful and make sure it doesn’t have that point at the neck.
This is the name that this project has now. It started out being call Pythagorean theorem. After my husband saw the amount of math that was involved for me to the design this shawl, but not for the knitter who wants to knit it, he thought is should be called Math Be Mathin’, it’s something to say when the numbers are making sense, and I thought it was a great idea. Other thoughts on this saying here.
I won’t go into all of the details here, I’ll save that for a future post, but this one will be published later in 2025. It is a fairly quick and simple knit. The edging is worked first, then stitches are picked up and the triangle is decreased until it is completed at the nape of the neck.
Like I said the knitter doesn’t have to do crazy math, just a bit of simple math that can be done without a calculator, but you can use one if you want to. I have all of the “formulas” written out and all you have to do is fill in the blanks.
This shawl can be made as big, or as small, as you’d like.
Happy making!
Azariahs Fibre Arts 