Tag: On the Spice Market

I put the final stitches in my shawl and washed and laid it out to block. I didn’t block it aggressively, because I wanted it to retain the squishiness of the garter stitch. Because the value of the colors is so close to each other (main/contrast colors), the pattern is more subdued. I think it… Continue reading On the Spice Market

So far, only one tiny modification has been required, and likely no one will ever know except me (and I’ll probably forget it some day). I started knitting section 4 with the pink. I got a couple of repeats in, and realized, hmmm… that ball of yarn is getting really small, and I don’t know… Continue reading A tiny modification

I’m about halfway through the second part of my On the Spice Market shawl. Working back through the set of colors in the first part, they are now the accent colors. The main color may look like a simple gray in the shawl, but it really looks like a purple-gray (gray-purple?) in the yarn ball,… Continue reading A little shawl progress