The end is nigh! Having arrived at the final blog post I find myself reflecting on my original learning goal for this project. Wisely, I did not define success as looking like a finished shawl (phew!) but to:

-have a strong grasp on the physical motions required to do the stitch and can do it somewhat smoothly and naturally without too much pause or frustration

-understand how the stitch makes the result that it does

-have a clear enough understanding of the pattern and charts that I can work on my project without constant need to have everything right in front of me

-have some kind of physical result of this learning, although I doubt I will have time to finish the shawl (maybe half a shawl?)

I feel that I succeeded on most fronts, at least in part. My motions have become a lot more fluid and I understand why the stitch works the way it does which was a complete mystery to me before.

I think I was anticipating that mastering the physical dexterity involved in the stitch would be the most challenging part, which makes sense since that was the case when I learned stranded colour work and cabling, but the biggest challenge ended up being keeping my place in a very complicated and overwhelming chart. Mosaic knitting works in a four row repeat, so keeping track of what row I was on made things tricky, and this is something I will have to continue to work at.

I definitely do NOT have half a shawl (lol) but I have something to show for all my work!

A Video!

In celebration of the final post, I wanted to film a video to demonstrate how fancy and fluid my stitches have become but of course the one row I decide to film, I got to the end of and realized that I had made a mistake by forgetting to increase halfway through. I then had to unknit half of the row and rework it.

At first, I was going to restart the video and try for one where I did things perfectly, but I think that this video is a better illustration of the process of learning things–sometimes you think you’ve got it and then you mess up and redo it. But the fact that I caught my mistake and knew how to fix it is pretty strong evidence that I’ve learned something about mosaic knitting this semester!

Also sorry for the poor framing in my video. I was working with a tripod which consisted of an empty flower vase, a candle, and my phone.