Playful shawl

A couple of weeks into my vision problems, I was going stir crazy. I needed to do something besides sit and listen to podcasts, tv, etc. I knew I couldn’t sew, but I finally remembered that I could do simple knitting without really having to look at it. The problem was that I really didn’t have any super simple projects in progress that I could just pick up and knit.

Enter the Playful shawl. The free design is super simple garter stitch (just knit on the front and back, no purling), using two alternating colors of yarn and a simple increase at the beginning and a simple decrease at the ending of the front side only.

As long as I didn’t drop any stitches, I could essentially just knit until I pretty much ran out of yarn (well, almost—I just needed to save enough of one color to bind off). Hallelujah, I felt productive again.

I was able to work on this throughout the rest of December, and finished it in the last days of the month.

The yarns I used were from stash – a merino single ply fingering yarn that I had originally wound up and had tried in another project that just didn’t work out. That’s the green and rose stripe. The colorway was Flora

The alternate color was a sparkle merino nylon blend fingering yarn, and its coloring was a cream background with speckles of purple, acid yellow-green, and a sort of melon shade.

I really hesitated before trying to put them together. I wasn’t sure at first if the colors would clash, but I think it turned out to be a perfect combination.