You guys! I finished my Uncia Shawl! I am so so happy, it was by far the hardest most complicated thing I have ever knit. It was the first time I'd ever done cables and it turns out the whole thing is made of different cables. I love the pattern, I think it's gorgeous and I love how the shawl came out.
The pattern comes from The Book of Haps, by Kate Davies Designs, but the Uncia Shawl pattern is by Lucy Hague. It's a fantastic book, with lots of history about haps and north sea knitting as well as traditional hap patterns and a variety of contemporary hap-inspired patterns. I bought the book when I was in Scotland last year, but you can also get it on Ravelry. I have the hard copy and PDF; it was great to have the PDF while I knit (that's how I keep track using a PDF editor on my ipad). The pattern and charts are very well written, but it was definitely very complicated. The pattern was introducing not-yet-used stitches right up until the last ten rows (!!) It had a total of 39 different stitches (only about 8 of which I knew before starting) including 22 different cable stitches. Whew.
I ran out of yarn about 80% of the way through. I was so aggravated, especially because I'd bought this yarn years ago for some other project I decided not to do and didn't have a ready source for more, not to mention it was mid-quarantine. And of course I couldn't even find the label anywhere and the prettiest part of the pattern is the end (it knit from the skinny end to the fat end). I finally found the label though and was able to pick up a ball from someone on Etsy. (HOORAY!)
This was such a complicated knit that I really had a hard time working on it if there were any other people around. Since my usual dedicated knitting time is at our church knit night, I had been making only very slow progress. But all the evenings at home during the shut-down provided a nice opportunity to work on it!
You can see the size a bit better here. I always feel like a dork posing with the self-timer.
Here are a couple of pictures I took while working on it.
Right there are some of my very first cables :)
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