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I've decided to post the pattern for the shawl I'm making on my website even if it hasn't been finished yet: it's easy enough that I'm pretty confident in it even after just a small sampler.

This is the current status:

the beginning of a triangular bottom up lace shawl, still on a circular needle, after knitting about 20 rows

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Confcall Safe Lace Shawl — Valhalla's fiber craft patterns documentation

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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One third of the shawl has been knit!

this picture is from a couple of days ago, but it isn't that different from how it looks like today

a work in progress triangular white shawl in white thin and lightly fuzzy yarn, with a very simple lace pattern that consists in rows of holes parallel to the two borders.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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Using the method where the beginning of the shawl is the swatch, I estimated that I probably want to keep # until I have about 150 stitches in the first half of the needle (i.e. 301 total stitches), as that should correspond to something around 1.5 meters on the long edge.

I've then calculated the square root of a few nice round fractions to know how many stitches there are on the half-needle when I've done that fraction of the total number of stitches / surface.

And then I tried to weight the yarn cake at those points to estimate how much the final shawl will weight / how much yarn I'm going to use.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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And this is where everything went wrong, as I got the following measurements:

1/6 → 112 g
1/5 → 111 g
1/4 → 107 g
1/3 → 105 g

and that, well, it's very much not linear at all.

I suspect that the problem is that the error from the scale is big enough compared to the values.

OTOH, I think I can already be confident that the result will be “pretty light”

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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very good question :(

I can't see if # (what my instance uses instead of mastodon) is adding a list of hidden @s, I can only see that you liked the initial post of the thread.
#friendica

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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Apparently it's by design, to prevent the issues with broken threads that happen between mastodon servers, and I don't think that there is a way to remove one person from the list of @s :(

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ok, maybe I've found a way to be able to remove individuals from the list of mentions (I hope)

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