This is the other planned shawl for which I got yarn at Bliss Yarns a couple of months ago. I wanted to finish at least one shawl/wrap project before starting it, and I did with the Guernsey Wrap in April. So around the first of May, I started this shawl. It was a mystery shawl… Continue reading The other shawl
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A new Playful shawl
A couple of months ago, we went to Bliss Yarns in Brentwood. The yarn shop has been there for quite a while, but I never managed to get there even when I lived in Nashville and it was a little closer to home than Haus of Yarn. I picked up some yarns for two specific… Continue reading A new Playful shawl
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
A tiny modification
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
A little shawl progress
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