Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Sometimes certain projects are...

REFRESHING!

I spun the yarn first without a specific project in mind.  It is two ply - one strand from wool mixed with splashes of dyed roving and the other of tencel blended with naturally dyed marigold, indigo, over-dyed green, cochineal, exhaust pot cochineal and goldenrod.  Once I had the yarn, I looked at it's luster and shinny quality.  Then I started knitting.  I liked the image of a triangle shawl draped nicely around one's shoulders or doubled up around one's neck.  The first triangle didn't satisfy the wrapping quality I was looking for, so I ripped it out and started again.  This time, I added a 4 stitch increase every other row, which eventually inverted the triangle.  Then I added short rows to get more wing-span breadth.  I think I'm going to keep this piece.



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