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.