why no, I did not just spend the past two hours trying to take good pictures of an 80″+ long shawl
It’s done! This shawl knit up surprisingly quick since it never got any wider and just grew longer so there wasn’t that weird “I’m knitting more but my rows keep taking longer” effect that happens with triangular shawls.
The first two pictures are more correct representations of the colours of this shawl than the very long full scale photo - I realized that I could either fit the whole shawl in a picture or I could do the colours justice but I couldn’t do both without taking the time to find a suitable background (e.g. a nice plain wall) and hanging the shawl so that it all caught natural light.
I’m ridiculously excited to wear this shawl and with the weather outside being -25C, I think I’ll do that the next time I venture outside (which, alas, will be today). I still need to cut off the ends of all my colour changes (of which there are a lot of yarn ends since it took me a third of the way through to realize I could just carry the yarn up the side for the two rows that border the garter portions of each section) but on the other hand, I don’t actually have any ends to weave since I knit them all in as I went along.
Seriously, for a piece of work like this I’d recommend something like this technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZg6MrGRQA which is a way to knit the ends as you go along and is very helpful to someone like me who doesn’t want to finish a project and then realize there’s still so much to do before it actually gets finished (i.e., weaving in ends and blocking). I can’t do anything about the blocking (and previous experience has shown me procrastinate that by upwards of two years) but the ends can be taken care of with a bit of front-loading.
This yarn was dyed with for this pattern specifically and it’s a wonderfully soft 55% wool, 45% silk blend. But really, any gradient set would do.
Pattern: Inara Wrap
Yarn: Inara Gradient by Wool Silk Lace
Project page: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/miikarin/inara-wrap
