Aeolian Knitting

I've been taking far too many breaks to other knitting projects away from the Aeolian Shawl so finally the past two days (with minor break to attend to the Candy Cardigan) I've finally buckled down to on Aeolian's Transition Chart. I finished the Yucca Chart repeats a while ago but was rather intimidated by starting the Transition Chart quite so soon so I figured I could take a break in between to tide myself with smaller projects.

I'm knitting the Aeolian in a really rich red with the my stash of Jade Sapphire Lacey Lamb that my sister got for my birthday a year ago. She got me two skeins of it which amounts roughly to 1650 yards of it. Some of it I tried to use for a Muir shawl but decided against it and the line snapped when I was trying to frog the yarn back. So there is probably a 100 yards less in the final stash but I can still use the rest of this hefty amount to make a formidable shawl.

The Aeolian Shawl pattern comes in three sizes. One is a dainty 27 arm-length by 64 back-bone long shouderette, another is a 23 by 48 shoulderette, and the final is the 38 by 90 inch shawl. I'm using the large shawl pattern but the original needle size was for a size 2 needle with 1100 yards and I bumped it up to a size 4 needle and will pray that the extra 500 yards that I have will be enough. This shouldn't be too much of a problem though because I've seen plenty of Ravelry users who've worked the shawl size in the larger needles and finished in under the yardage that I have with plenty of leg room.

Still, as an added precaution, I'm going to make a life-line at a specific point before the final edging because the designer of the pattern released a special modified edging for the design that just so happens to use up 12 rows less yarn which will mean a world of difference given that the shawl's rows can grow to 983 stitches before the bind-off.

I've only two rows left in the Transition Chart before the Agave Chart. I'd finish it now but at 3 in the morning but realizing that each row just takes longer and longer to finish than the last...perhaps it's best to get a little shut-eye for the morning.