Something New?
I had this post almost completed, links and all, when it froze on me and I had to restart. I thought people moved to Macs to avoid this but clearly, hanging and rebooting is still something I have to do.
I have been casting around (instead of casting on) for a new lace shawl project, and cannot decide for the life of me how to pair yarn and pattern. So I thought I’d ask for your opinions.
Here are the shawls: Kimono shawl, Print O’ the Wave Stole, Leaf Lace Shawl and Spirit of the Southwest shawl.
The yarns: Variegated ochre-green jumperweight and Malabrigo "rich earth" (the wound up skeins), both 1700 yards or so each. I also have 3600 yards of pale pink Malabrigo laceweight like the shade in Eunny’s kimono shawl.
Questions: 1) Will the variegated yarn look good in any of these patterns? In terms of retaining its hues and not obscuring the stitch patterns? I don’t like any of the Koigu-derived garter stitch triangular shawls.
2) Which one should I do with the "rich earth" Malabrigo?
3) For the 3600 yds of pale pink, I thought either the Irish Diamond Shawl or the Frost Flowers and Leaves Shawl. But the shape of the first, especially when people hold it up like that in photos makes it look weird and I don’t know how it drapes. The second, well, it’s easily the most gorgeous thing, but folding it in half? Feels almost criminal and that is making me think twice about circular and square shawls. What do you guys think? Any recos for this yarn, or should I just swap two skeins with someone for another shade?
ed. to change the link to the Frost.. shawl. It was the earlier one that was causing my machine to hang by asking me to download some weird plugin. Hopefully nobody clicked on it before I managed to figure it out.
What lovely shawls, all of them. I don’t think I’ll ever knit one, I’m scared!
Also in a bit of knitting/crochet funk, without any projects in mind…
The SoSW shawl seems tailor made for that jumperweight; the colors and the thickness seem like they’d work well together. It’ll be an awfully warm shawl, though, so maybe something more open would be better considering your newly warmer place of residence?
I still love the Frost Flowers and Lace shawl, and think I’m going to use some of Laura’s lace weight alpaca to do one in the relatively near future. For some reason, I think it also seems to hold up to folding over remarkably well; the FF lace pattern is so big and bold, it doesn’t seem to fade away, to my eyes, at least.
I knit the Kimono shawl with variegated fingering wt. Cherry Tree Hill yarn and it turned out great. That pattern definitely works with variegated yarn.
For your laceweight, most definitely FFL. I believe that the GOL book has a lot of errors, so make sure you check out errata before casting on. Good luck!
Deepa
I think the Kimono Shawl and the Leaf Lace shawl both work with variegated; I have both of these on my list of things to do, and have had the same question, but I’m leaning variegated. And I agree about FFL–it seems to hold up to the folding quite well. I want to make that, too– but it seems like too much of a commitment just at the moment. I also love Print ‘o the Wave– we’ve got pretty much the same list going…
Quill
I agree that the Kimono shawl would look gorgeous in the variegated, and I think the FFL is an absolute must. It’s just too beautiful not to knit. I’ve been thinking of starting on shawls, and it just might get me started
Hmm. So far: all votes for the FFL on the pink, and I like that there are nods to the Kimono on the variegated. Spud, you’re right about the SoSW, the colours are just right for it but it might actually be too warm. Let’s see; I’ll swatch for the Kimono first. Swift and 1700 yds, here I come!
Thanks everyone.
Misfit, trust me, all you need is patience for the shawls…
Personally I would use the Malabrigo for the Kimono shawl, I think it would look nice in a rich color. But I’m sure whatever you choose will be gorgeous!
Hmmmm. I’ve been having my own “discussion” with varigated yarn lately, so I’m not sure you want my opinion!
All the shawls are so pretty!
dont know if u read my coment on your earlier post, hoping u will come across this one. here is my new id, kkirdatt@rediffmail.com….drop a note whenever u have time…i really think we should know each other. bye and lotsa luck for the shawl. deciding and choosing is always the worst part and by the time u,ve dreamed up ur concoction in diff forms u already begin to lose a wee bit of interest