Weekend Progress! Whee!

I can't even tell you how psyched I am about this shawlette! I'm knitting away, and everything seems to be working.

Here's the latest progress photo:

The full diamond, starting with the leaves at the top, and ending with a bottom half of mesh, is 48 rows deep. I'm about 6 rows into the second full repeat. When I measured my swatch, a full diamond is about 8.5" deep. So after I get to the end of my current 24-row section (half of a diamond), I need to start on the border! Amazing.

I measured several of my shoulder shawls (or "shawlettes"), and I can see that 16-18" deep is about right for me. This is going to be done remarkably quickly, looks like. There is a good bit of fabric, so it may be a very flowing shawl, I can't quite tell yet. I think I'll just go ahead and finish it "as is," then block and re-assess whether I might make my "rays" shorter.

Here's a close-up of the back panel:

The top of the panel angles out, following the lines of the outside leaf of each pair. Then the panel goes straight down, with mesh half-diamonds at each side, instead of a split leaf. Make sense?

Ah, wait... how's this?

It just dawned on me that I could draw lines to illustrate the point in Photoshop. I love Photoshop!

So I'll keep knitting, and I'll reconcile counts for the borders as well. I'll post more about charting lace soon. Theresa's questions (August 20, 2005 entry) deserve a complete answer, and I like to talk about the charting process. Part of my original goal for this project was to more fully learn to chart (and thereby understand) lace, and I've definitely made progress towards that end.

I'll do screen shots of the worksheets that I used to get from point A to point B, and hope they'll be useful to others as obsessed with lace as I am!

Still listening to Eleven on Top, but I only have one CD left to go!