Halloween Superpowers
I’m feeling extra spooky/witchy/halloween-y this year. So I really needed a shawl to match this feeling.
Enter, my design, the Superpowers shawl. When I was setting up the blog, and wanted my patterns to be available #offrav, it was joyful to look at my pics again to add the pattern to payhip. It made me want to knit another. This pattern features a whole comic book storyline for choosing colors and pics to go with all of that, and I had forgotten JUST how much fun I had putting it together.
I found a great combo of yarn on etsy from Nanette Wake Studios. I wanted a multicolor with my fav halloween colors, and a lighter speckle to stripe with it. And then minis to do the accents like i-cord and edgings before and after the cable/lace section.
Making it all the more fun is my Shelli.can “Wool Witch” bag. It feels like making magic when I craft!
Used the idea of #80 from this crochet book, but with a little of my own twist. Added beads on row 2 and 4 using superfloss. Between beaded bind off and beaded crochet border, used almost a full hank of glossy black beads.
- color c1: Spooky
- color c2: Halloween Candy
- color i1: Frankencandy multi
- color b1 (before): Frankencandy dark orange, then Frankencandy light orange
- color b2 (lace): Halloween Candy
- color b1 (after): Frankencandy pink, then Frankencandy green
- color for several rows and then beaded bind off: Frankencandy multi
- color for gothic lace crochet: Spooky
Used all but a few yards of the multicolor mini skein, and the rest of the others minis. And most of the large skeins.
- September 4: Winding minis by hand is happy to me, so a Saturday night where I let that be part of my fun is a good night.
- September 5: Cast on my first wedge.
- September 10: 2 1/2 wedges in! Alternating knitting on this with my Ripple Crop Top.
- September 19: watched season 1 of Departure.
- September 21: 5 wedges in with Buffy “The Wish” watch party.
- September 22: 7 1/2 wedges in with ZKN Wednesday.
- Beginning of October: Choosing to do more colors before and after the Cable & Lace section – dark and light orange above and pink and green below.
- Cable & Lace section: skipping the knitting on the WS row to cut out the extra bumps around the lace part.
- October 14: started beaded bind off.
- midway through week of October 18: started crochet beaded bind off.
