tassels

Kristine, Betsy, and Joyce have all made very different versions of a shawl called Downtown line.  Gayle has now started it as well.  I hope to make it.  I had thought that I might make it with my beautiful Panda Pearl yarn.  The colors are wonderful for it.  But the yarn is too heavy to use the pattern as it is written and I worry that I will have trouble figuring the short rows if I try to change the gauge.  But I wanted to put a few ideas in place for when the time comes that I do make this shawl.
The first is Joyce's wonderful tassels.  They are such a pretty finishing touch.  Done in the fingering weight yarn and made long, they really finish the shawl and make it hang prettier.


  



The shawl Joyce is wearing is not Downtown line.  I was thinking it was Cosmo Girl, but I can't find that pattern anywhere.  So I'll put the name at a later date.  Joyce said she made it with fingering weight yarn and size 5 needles.  The day that Joyce wore it, I was thinking I might use some of my linen yarn to make this shawl.  But then I liked the colors of my Panda Pearl yarn so much for the shawl, that I might change my mind.