Color in Shawls
I’m currently totally in love with circular pi shawls, knit with multiple colors.
Love knitting them, love looking at them, love designing them.
love, love, love.
One of the best parts is how you can take two skeins that (on their own) wouldn’t make very sizable shawls, and knit a huge shawl.
Anwar is knit out of two skeins of Malabrigo lace, which has good (not astounding) yardage, but the finished shawl is 36 inches (91.5 centimeters) in diameter.
Mayur is just two skeins of sock yarn (something I think we all have in our closets or under our beds.)
Eirwen on the other hand is knit with one skein of Tosh Lace and one skein of Sweet Georgia Lace and can put most horse blankets to shame. (You can always stop knitting at an earlier point in the pattern, if horse blanket isn’t your style.)
The other best part about adding color to your shawls is it looks waaaaaaay more complicated than it actually is.
You could do stripes. Or blocks of color.
You could mix blocks of color and stripes. Block of color A, stripes of colors A and B, block of color B, like Anwar.
Or mix them more randomly like in Eirwen.
Or work an intricate striping sequence like the ombre pattern in Mayur.
And I might have started another color work shawl last night……. at least if I’ve got a problems it’s a very pretty problem.
Hello Friday
It’s Friday again. And again, I don’t know how that happened or where Thursday went. Oh well.
- a post about crescents
- the Conclusion of the Shawl Geometry blog series
- got Shawl Geometry II edits back.
- lots of spinning
- work-ey things
- lots of brainstorming, and therefore a wall of post-it-note ideas
- the end of the month (goodbye July, hello August)
- updated and cleaned up the pattern page. (go browse, get patterns)
Next week there will be:
- more work-ey things.
- a post color in shawls
- editing Shawl Geometry II
- more spinning
- I still need a new knitting project
- small updates to things.
I’m playing with a (non sucky) Friday ritual.
I’d love to hear any thoughts or ideas, your Friday ‘rituals’ if you have them. You’re totally welcome to look at your week, past or future, here (or on your own.)
But either way, be nice, and I’d rather not have shoulds. ie. “you should…”
spin, spin, spin, wheeeeeeeeee!
I’m always working on some project or another, and most weeks I talk about what I’m working on Wednesdays as part of Tami’s WIP Wednesday project. You can see past WIP Wednesdays … right this way.
I finished up the shawl a couple days ago. Still needs the ends woven in, and blocking, but the knitting is done.
And it still kinda looks like a sea anemone.
But instead of starting another knitting project I picked up an old spinning project.
It’s a loop batt bullseye bump, with merino, corriedale, and angelina in it. It moves from the navy blue on the bottom right, to the lavender, to the marron-ish, then to a blue-grey (you can see a bit peeking out of the center of the ball of fiber.)
Though the giant ball of fiber isn’t super portable, so I’ll probably start a new shawl soon.
If you’d like more WIP Wednesday posts, from other bloggers, visit Tami’s blog.
