Finally have some time to block the #PsychedelicaKal #knitting

I tried opening the lace-crazy part a lot, but keeping the stripe stockinette section more closed.

Pwingspan around 180cm, perfect! Glad I added more stripes and more of the crazy pattern as well, now the length is what I prefer.

Excited to have finished this!

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Dryblocking to test it out.
I think I like it even more like this. So will take it off, wash and block again and hope for the best :)

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Managed to finally bind-off!!
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Now on to the blocking.
(Duplo for size reference)

I ended up doing 4 repeats of the psychedelic pattern in stripes, and 1 repeat in single colour. Skipping the stockinette section, but now adding the garter part of 6 rows, followed by the bind-off.

I really enjoyed the psychedelic pattern but also glad to have some easy knitting ahead...

I do wonder how the border will look, the pictures of the aran version shows a very nice wave-idea of the border, but I don't see how that will happen in my version...

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Question regarding #blocking my #knitting

I'm almost done with my first lace-project: the #PsychedelicaKal by @LaVisch

The original pattern is for aran weight, but I decided to do a lace version. I really like how it looks now. But I'm wondering about the blocking (which I've never done before)

When I block aggressively to see what it would look like, can I then simply wash it again for it to be un-stretched/un-blocked again? Or should I block it a little bitat the time to see what I prefer?

So happy to be back from holidays... and it's raining here the whole day, and so I try to finally get back to #knitting my #PsychedelicaKal, while the children play...

I decided to add another two-colour psychedlic section because otherwise when I want to have 2 one-colour repeats to end it off, I think it would be unbalanced in total.

I have no idea how large the total will be as I have never blocked anything and also don't know how much stretch I should go for. Questions questions...

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I've decided to give up trying to finish this project soon. Rather make it exactly as I'd best like it... even if that means a two weeks hiatus when I'm travelling...

But #knitting #PsychedelicaKal and finished the third repeat of the psychedelic pattern part, but decided to add another repeat (in two colours). And the do one or two addition repeats of the patterns in one colour (instead of the stockinette section).

Really love how it is looking!

The rows are getting very long though... hah

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Hard to take pictures when it's getting so big and still on the needles... but trying to show the crazy part and how beautiful it is in lace yarn!

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I'm using even thinner yarn (lace) and did some extra rounds of the first striped section. (26 repeats instead of 22)

My striped section is 45 cm deep. 80 cm wide

The crazy section is 15 cm deep, 20cm wide, but still 4 rows to go (out of 42).

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@KarenStrickholm thanks!! and @SuzyShearer has inspired me... I don't think I've ever knitted something so nice & so quickly... even experimenting with different type of yarn... I might actually be beyond a beginner-knitter now!

Now still to finish, of course. Hoping to finish the 3rd repeat of the psychedelic pattern tonight!

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Almost finished second repeat of the #PsychedelicaKal weird part.
Yarn: alpaca lace

Much faster now, and really love how it looks ❤️

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Just finished the first repeat of the #PsychedelicaKal weird part... it still looks weird, but I'm starting to like it now that the whole pattern is emerging.

Will be a question of how aggressively I will block it in the end... but that is a question for later.

I stuck to the pattern, except that I gave up on 'p2tog tbl' and substituted those with p2tog.

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@Johannab oh that is so nice!
actually a couple of knitters on here are doing a KAL right now... some are finishing the #ReynaKal and/or are working on the #PsychedelicaKal.

Sunday here. Spent Friday, yesterday, & today, writing till lunchtime then knitting while vegging out on Star Trek the orginal series.
About to start series 2 this arfternoon and the 3rd round of #psychedelicaKAL.

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Update #PsychedelicaKal #knitting

Did 16 more rows of the stripe section, before moving on to the next section. Here the madness starts, takes some time to get into it, fortunately my series finished so I could just focus on the knitting ;-)

Hard to see on the image. But looks interesting... 6 rows in, so hard to say much.

Hopefully will finish first section tomorrow, then two more repeats at least, and then a stockinette section and a garter border.

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I'm hoping to finish this within two weeks... so I can bring it with me on my travels.

Finished the stripes section, but as my gauge is so different (using lace instead of aran yarn) I am going to expand this section by 0.5
And then do the psychedelic pattern or also expand that, depending on how big it will be.

It feels as if I haven't used any yarn yet... so wonderfully soft and malleable.

Loving it!

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Wrote 1k words on my novel this morning then picked up my knitting.
Up to row 11 of #psychedelicaKAL . Had to undo a little with earlier rows but think I've got it figured out now.

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Finished the first stripped section of #psychedelicaKAL & started on the next section. Did something wrong so had to undo & redo the 2nd row. Hopefully the 3rd works better 🤣

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Started on #psychedelicaKAL yesterday. I'm using ChaioGoo red lace needles this time. Usually knit with KnitPro Symfonie for all my projects but I'd read some good reviews on the ChaioGoo so thought I'd try then - so far they seem nice.
Monday here so back to writing for a few hours then I'll knit a little this evening.

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