Several years ago when we were knitting at the Wild Ramp, Mitzi and Sally and I became very excited about a shawl that used Schweppes Secret Garden Yarn. The shawl is pictured below. As was usual, Mitzi bought the yarn and had the shawl finished before I had acted on the idea to make this shawl. Mitzi was disappointed in the results and so I filed the idea away for a while. Then one day the yarn was offered on sale and I bought it and the pattern. But again, as usual, I did not start it right away. I pulled it out this summer because it looks very pretty in a glass container in my bedroom. And I have been thinking about perhaps working on a project with this yarn. But now I am not so "taken" with knitting a shawl that has such a deep triangle point.
So I have continued to look at the yarn and think. I found a pattern that I might use called Nordic Sunrise.
This shawl is in fingering yarn while the Secret Garden yarn is a DK yarn with suggested needle size 6. But since it is a shawl, I am willing to give a try to using a different size yarn as fit does not matter. I think that I have 9 balls of the Secret Garden yarn each containing 142 yards, so I believe it likely that I have enough yarn to make a substantial shawl.
I am thinking about doing the parts that are Brioche in two color Fisherman's rib. This morning I found a site that has good explanation of this and I did not want to loose the idea:
https://www.bettaknit.com/blog/knit-stitches/2-color-fishermans-rib-stitch-tutorial
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