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Mitered Cowl (the serious version of the promo post)
Dropped by local yarn store on impulse & discovered they had just gotten in new Malabrigo colorways!🎉
Malabrigo Sock, left to right, Euforia, Fascinacion, & Seduccion. Pic shot in natural light, in my lap, in the car. No filter.
Working on the Sprite's Fen Shawl by Helen Stewart!
I can't remember the last time I was so excited to be working on a project like this. Her patterns are so wonderful to follow, stitch counts and percentages every step of the way. (A fantastic change from a recent pattern I tried, which is still in time out.)
It was (mostly) unintentional, but the colors I picked are also Bi Pride colors! Just in time for June, how fitting!
Colors pictured:
Vagabond by Toad Hollow
Polar Morn by Malabrigo
Taffy by Hedgehog Fibres
It Started with a Sketch: Boom Star
For this shawl, I was inspired by an article I read in the Telegraph: Spectacular collision of suns will create new star in night sky in 2022. I had the perfect color combo in my stash, Malabrigo Sock in dark grey and vivid yellow, so I set to designing a shawl inspired by dark night skies and bright stars.
The star stitch, or aster stitch, was the perfect stitch pattern to use. But I still felt the shawl needed something... more. I’ve been following Silhouette Patterns on YouTube for a while, and they use pattern slashing quite a bit to adjust and modify sewing patterns. I got to thinking... what if you used pattern slashing to shape a knitted shawl? And what’s pattern slashing in the knitting world: short rows!
My sketched shawls have four sections in them, and this is how I initially wrote the pattern. When I knit the sample, though, I realized there was enough yarn only for three sections and a wide border. Sometimes real-life limitations can interfere with your vision. :)
On Ravelry: Boom Star
Pattern: Boom Star by Susanna Winter
Yarn: Malabrigo Yarn Sock, one skein each in Eggplant and Ochre
Needles: 4.5 mm Cubics
creative process:
30% cool rocks
50% having no idea how people keep shawls on or refusing to believe any of the many ideas I’ve been presented with
I want to build things with the idea of specific people enjoying them again, instead of with an eye toward being able to easily recycle the yarn the way I have been lately.
Hello!
So, I live in Florida, and hurricane Dorian seems to be on it's way this week. While it's not forecasted to be a direct hit at this time, it's still going to impact where I live, so my brain is not the most fun place for me. As a distraction, my mother found a pattern that comes in both crochet and knit, so we can each approach it in our own way. A distraction that is aptly named 'Stormy Sky Shawl'. I've chosen to do the crochet version (of course) in Malabrigo Sock in the color way 'Caribeño', also appropriate. Beautiful variegated blues, perfect for working during this tumultuous storm season.
Im super excited to see how this turns out! Wish me luck, and I'll keep you guys updated!