Skip to main content

Finished Object: Wishmaker Shawl



I've got a bunch of short posts of stuff wot I 'ave finished recently to post, that have been sat with the photos prepped and nothing else for a while.
First off, is the Wishmaker Shawl, pattern number 5 from the Shawl Society season 2. This is the second of the shawls from this set that I've finished, and while I do like the pattern, I ruined it with poor yarn choices.


It's not the most interesting of knits; all garter stitch with a few k2tog, yo eyelet rows, but it knits up quickly in DK yarn and makes a comfy sized, late autumn shawl, with endless possibilities thanks to colour choices.



In an attempt to save money, I went with, initially, 3 shades of Drops Karisma, which was cheap and easily available, in a mid grey, dark olive and a dark forest green. On the website, they looked great together, but when they actually arrived, the forest green was tonally VERY different from the other two, and was never going to look good. The best analogy I can come up with is that it was oil pastel, the other two were chalk pastel.
So I stash dove (or rather, stared at the random yarn that had been delivered fairly recently but not put away) and realised I had a skein of Burke and Hare from MyMamaKnits, which I had slated for fingerless gloves, but which would match perfectly. Annoyingly, I also realised I had enough different shades of blue in DK that I could have used stash for this. Oh well.



It wasn't a perfect match, but the hints of blue, red and yellow really bought out the pattern, and livened it up a bit.

Sadly, I came to the conclusion that I hated the olive green, and so I'm not likely to ever wear this. Once I've finished all the other patterns from the set, and photographed them together, I'll be getting rid of it (I suspect the Sprite's Fen will also be going; I love the yarn, but it's not very me)

It blocked nicely, and went from squishy and small to squishy and big, which is all you really want from a cosy shawl like this.



Annoyingly, I now have 2 skeins of bright "forest green" and most of a skein each of the grey and the olive green. There's still a bit of the Burke and Hare left as well, and I'm probably going to buy a new skein of it at some point because I do really like it.

And there you go! Another FAL finish!

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Some random things

    So I'm currently faffing around at work, waiting for a meeting that might not happen and trying no to go mad with the current project I'm working on (pro tip: don't make the English graduate computerise the electrical drawings. bad things happen) My pretty fabric for my post xmas present sewing showed up at work on Friday (when I was off doing xmas shopping in MK) so I didn't get it until today. It's so pretty! And I managed some impressive colour matching given I was working on my not very well calibrated work monitor! This is going to be tucked away until I'm done, so I'm not tempted before I'm done with presents.   I posted the other night about how much I love my seam ripper (there was an issue with squid, which will be covered in a post later when I can get all the photos in the right order, so, when I get home) and someone asked what it was, so I took this to illustrate the point. It sees a fair amount of use, and this weekend

Finished Object - Nudibranch Madness

There is no nudity in this post! Just sea slug awesomeness :D My first finish for the second quarter of the 2017 Finish-A-Long is my Nudibranch March Mini Madness shawl. Found here on Ravelry , this was an excellently quick and brainless knit, which I've managed to make obscenely colourful thanks to Mothy and the Squid's excellent nudibranch colourways. I'm trying to make an effort to have a bit more colour in my outfits, and this will brighten up anything I wear! It has a slight curvature where I bodged the tension adding the second mini skein of yarn, which I also added too early, but otherwise, a pleasing, lazy knit for lunchbreaks and evenings watching TV. I've been knitting a lot more recently; my sewing room is a mess and getting home in the evenings I just want to flake in front of trashy tv and not think too hard, rather than work around the piles of stuff lying around upstairs. I've spent a chunk of this bank holiday weekend trying to tidy up,

Finished Object: Triple Pouch

Good morning! The sun is shining and I know full well the weather is going to turn again this weekend, because it's England, but stuff it, I shall rejoice in the sun, however brief it is! This is actually a Finish Along Finish! Bet you thought there wouldn't be any of those! (I wasn't sure...) This is the Triple Pouch from Aneela Hoey's Stitched Sewing Organisers book. And it's terrifying! But it looks really cool.