Showing posts with label three cornered shawl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label three cornered shawl. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

A shawl is done

Unusual lately for me to dive in and use a new yarn. Recent yarn purchases have been in preparation for particular projects. Maybe that's why this one is different. It was traded yarn. Traded for a BMFA Knitter's Without Borders skein that I bought at the Yarn Harlot book signing but decided I didn't really love the color combination. So it sat in my trade/sell until someone else wanted it.

The Three Corner Scarf pattern is from Judith McKenzie-McCuin's Intentional Spinner book. Ruth Howell is the pattern designer. It's a nice pattern for handspun and this yarn while not spun by me, was a handspun. A thick and thin single of 50/50 wool and silk. The silk gives it a nice shimmer that I think at least one of the photos captures.

The colorway is Summer Heat, but I think this will go well with my harvest gold dress I plan to wear for Thanksgiving.

In its blocking wires (really loving these things - thanks again Cindy for offering them to me to buy!):

Closeup that kind of shows the silk shimmer:


Showing how long it is. Unblocked it was 24 inches deep, after blocking 30 inches:


Now the strange thing, nothing showing in Ravelry as an active project. Since I had a scratchy throat, figured out its allergies too late, I'll be off to start some mittens. I did finish up plying the Garnet as a nice two-ply. No details yet, since its resting overnight.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Inbetween project

I needed something simple and something that I could pick up and put down fairly easily. The Three-Cornered Scarf can be done large enough to become a shawl and with the trade yarn I should have plenty. Thought it would also be nice to have for Thanksgiving.

I have a little bit on the needles needles now but need to start on the next Christmas project. Think I might do a scarf or a pair of mittens. I have the yarn ready for both. May go with the scarf as it too is a simple straightforward pattern. Size 8 needles should also help it go quickly.

Progress so far on shawl: