Friday Fun!

 The sample shawl I am knitting is not pleasing me. Well, it is so nice except that first: I did not think it was going to "go around" me the way I wanted it to so I added some extra stitches, and second: it seemed like if I kept knitting as I was going (to get the shawl to go to where I wanted it  to stop on my arms) the point of the triangle was going to be way too long...maybe even hitting the floor. SO that was not working for me. 

Last night it crossed my mind that if I did short rows I could stop increasing the length and just add to the width. I do not know if this will work but I am going to give it a try,.

This morning I made a little sample shawl to try it out.

This is the tiny shawl.  The top (the part that is down in the picture) goes across my neck and shoulders.

Here you can see that I made short rows  on the left (at the end of every row) and came out with a square.  So far so good.

Here is the shawl with the second side with short rows knitted.  I now have a little rectangle--more a wrap than a shawl, I suppose.

Here is the little guy after knitting around the outside with Yarn Over, Knit 2, then just repeated YO, K2  all around.  Finally I knitted one  time around the new ending part and bound off.  I did not, as you can see, weave in the ends...

So this seems to work.  I may inquire of the Columbia Spinners/Knitters tomorrow when I see them tomorrow.

As I am writing this I think maybe I should only do the short rows on the end by the spine of the shawl to stop the length increasing but continue the width as is.  I just don't know.  We shall see.