weight remaining yarn: 42g left (79% of 2 skeins used), about 518 yards used. I think it ate up a little more yarn because of being Sport weight instead of fingering, but it made an awesome shawl. This yarn worked up so smoothly and knit like butter!
The other great thing about this shawl is that the yarn did the striping all on its own, I didn’t change anything at all, except to straighten out a knot in the first skein (stripe inside the red).
| Began | July 12, 2011 |
| Finished | July 11, 2011 |
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| Edited | July 12, 2011 |
| Pattern URL | Wren Shawl by 208356 |
| Made for | Urban Fiber Arts in Portland, OR |
| Size made | full, with crochet edging |
swatched on several diff sized needles, and the larger swatch was so much more helpful to see this new technique. short rows are rockin’.
alternate skeins after neckband start. CO for 40”. Increase with Raglan to the 44” size. Decrease 2 times total, then knit 20 rows. Increases in triplets for a fuller shape. One purl row of main color, then start intarsia block of imagination (keeping the neckband the same on both ends using each skein on either…
took the idea of Sister Janie, expanded the width of the motif, and then stretched the space between increase/decrease rows out. Like a waterfall!
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Found a new-to-me fiber dyer on Etsy, DnD Fibers, and purchased 8oz of one colorway and 8oz of another to spin up. They are both 85% polwarth and 15% tussah silk. One colorway was a soft pink, a purple leaning pink, a steely gray, and white, and the other was soft pink leaning lavender, the…
