Panda Pearl Yarn

Yesterday was one of those funny days when I ran out of mindless knitting.  So this morning I am trying to start a few projects while I finish these projects that take some thought.  I finished my your slip is showing shawl and plan to block it when it gets too hot to sit on the porch this afternoon.  I picked up a very pretty blue shawl that I am knitting Wendy's Fern Shawl with....but I am in a spot in which there seems to be a glitch in the pattern.....So I need to pull up the original pattern and see what happens in the chart....And I made a mistake in my Nyphalidea shawl and need to spend some time on it....but the biggest thing that happened is that I ran out of black yarn on my Panda Pearl wrap.  So I spent an hour looking for another skein of Panda Pearl Black yarn with no success.  The few people who have this yarn in their stash on Ravelry say it is not for sale or trade and Ravelry gives no way to contact them to double check.  So I put the wrap on in front of the mirror and OH MY!  I absolute LOVE IT!  Ok, I see what to do.  I will finish it by binding off where I am now and adding a solid band of the rust color to the other end.  It will be just fine.

Ok, it is August and I am editing this post.  First, I failed to put the labels for this yarn into the original post.  So here is one of them:





But in the process of making this decision, I looked all over the place for Panda Pearl yarn and actually found a few sites.  I can't get the yarn out of my head this morning, so I am going to put the ideas in this blog so that I don't loose them, but also don't jump in and buy "stuff" I don't need.

I ended up buying one skein of the below while working on what I was going to do.




9002 Nutmeg


and the below project on Ravelry mixed Panda Pearl with a Knit Picks Gloss DK ....I might choose a more vibrant color such as black or one of the bright colors in the Zimbabwe as the background color.  But the Zimbabwe has VERY pretty colors in it.  And perhaps the rust would work as the solid.



The spice market would blend very well with the light color that I have left.  And the nutmeg color that is left is probably my favorite.  However it has to be mixed with a solid....knitted alone it is too splotchy for me from looking at projects on Ravelry.

Also as I edit in August, I will explain that Sally and Dar helped me figure out how to go to people who say they do not want to sell their yarn and message them to ask if they might....and it turned out that several of them were happy to sell me their black Panda Pearl.

So I did indeed find the black Panda Pearl yarn.  And I was very happy because when I looked in the full length mirror in the closet, I decided that the original pattern did not make a scarf long enough for my taste....so I have added more rows.  And finally in November here is the finished scarf!