Easter egg in a bad way?
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.
Yesterday I waxed poetic about color in shawls.
And the other night I started, yet, another one.
Not quite sure how I feel about it. I’m wondering if it’s a bit too Easter egg, in a bad way.
But I think if I come up with the right stitch pattern, and keep changing up the color sequence, it’ll stay away from boring ugly. fingers crossed.
Thoughts?
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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…”
