shawls

After a disastrous attempt to knit the fichu I came up with a solution.
I decided to just knit a triangle shawl and then count the stitches I needed to apply the fichu border.
There after it took my I day or two to figure out how to begin so that the border would come at the right side and in the end I mastered the puzzle! I do not no exactly what kind of wool I used, because it was in a stash that I got from my grandmother.
The last border with the leafs took like forever. So in between I knitted another multnomah exactly after the one I allready knitted and sold. It is the perfect color to match a pair of jeans.
The project before the fake fichu I knitted a shawl by the name of Cladonia.
I have not blocked them yet and I hope to do that this week.

The project I took on today is a Gail Nightsong and now in a beautiful green alpacka.
Pictures will follow.

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My shawl

I have been struggling lately with my Fichu shawl and two days ago I decided to take it out.
Did not work for me !
I still love the shawl and started with another project.
The same yarn and another pattern.
It became the Gail (Aka Nightsongs) and on 5mm needles.
So får it looks very good!

The gail shawl is all about leaves.
The yarn does not show it now because this is only the beginning.
To be continued .........

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Decision is made or not?

I decided to go for the Fichu  pattern by Fadenidylle and I do not get it.
I think I started the right way:

The triangle is exactly how it is supposed to be, I suppose and then I had to go over to the short rows!
Man, what a strungle!!!
This is what it looks like:

It should look like decreasing instead of staying the same the whole time!
What am I doing wrong?
I want to give up !!!

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My new project?

This morning I wook up early and decided to block my Multnomah shawl and here it is:

On the Siv fest a couple of months ago I won 3 skeins of Noblesse in blue/grey and that was not enough for my feather and fan border so I bought 2 skeins of Alpaca from Schachenmeyr and that worked like a charm. I am very happy with my shawl!

Now the question is what to start for a new project?
I have some lovely alpaca in a rustlike colour and about 300 grams of it!

Any suggestions?
So far I like this and cannot decide:
Fichu by Fadenidylle
Cladonia by Kirsten Kapur

All suggestions are welcome!

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