Concatenation Shawl

 I can not remember how I happened onto this pattern now.  But it was from the website of Expression Fiber Arts.  It was not a Ravelry find.  I had bought yarn during my quest for the perfect yarn for Botanique.  And I had fallen in love with the variegated color  on Emma's site: 10 questions

So I called the Yarn Club (a store that had a great selection of Emma's Super Silky and the store that had been a favorite for Dar for many years.  And they helped me choose colors to go with 10 questions.

I chose, Wish you were Beer, 

And a beautiful deep teal and a nice very light color ....almost whte/beige

But then I ended up using a different color way for the Botanique which I also loved.  So I decided to do the Concatenation shawl in these colors and I am loving this pattern and color way!

I finished this shawl the last week in March 2022.  I had a problem that I added to my blog post dated Sunday, March 27, 2022.  I will take photos and add to this site when I block it this afternoon.

I took the shawl off the blocking table yesterday and wore it to the Meet and Greet for the Guyan Lady's golf for 2022 season.  I have a glitch at the end of the shawl that shows in the photo of the blocking process.  I must have failed to knit two together on the last section.

And here is the finished product.  You can see that the glitch at the end does not detract:

Kristin

 

Kristin sent such a wonderful photo to our knitting group from Iceland that I wanted to save it.

As one of the group commented, her gorgeous hand knits are so wonderful that we almost didn't notice

the volcano!

Botanique

Here is my finished Botanique

Casapinka designed a new knit along early 2021 called Botanique.  Because I had so much fun with the Sharon Show, I decided to buy the yarn and knit along.  But somehow there wasn't as much hoopla this time and no one in our group was knitting it, I lost interest.  But I have cast on this past week and am ready to start.  I bought Emma's yarn in the super silky the Floridian Zest color way.   It is 80% super wash Merino and 20% Silk.  There are 400 grams in each skein.  I am knitting on size 5 needles.

The kit suggests using the colors in this order:  Cally Girl, Floridian Zest, Hot Tamale, Tangerine Mist.

Hmmm....the colors are not in that order in photo below.  The order below is Floridian Zest, Tangerine Mist, Hot Tamale, and Cally Girl.

I found a photo that showed a way to wear the shawl when it is finished that I like a lot:

I am using size 5 needles which is what the pattern calls for.  Here are the labels:

I put few scraps of the yarn in a tote in my bedroom closet that says summer yarn

The Cupid Shawl

Again at one of the Vogue Knitting Live events this year, Rebecca Glazier of Wild West Dye introduced her new Cupid Shawl.  So it is my new mindless project.  The yarn is scrumptious!  Honestly it feels wonderful as I knit!  Rebecca uses non-superwash and natural dyes!  It is fingering weight on side 4 needles.  And I bought it as a kit from her site.  Rebecca sends just the amount of yarn that you need....it is generous. A bit left over. And exactly these colors.

 

Color Courage

 After one of the Vogue Knitting Live events in 2020, I bought a shawl called Color Courage from Lakeside Yarn.   The shawl was designed by Cynthia Cushing

 What was of interest to me with this shawl is that it starts out as a triangle shawl and then about half way through changes into a less pointed, more crescent shape with longer span from tip to tip.  So it was the construction that I wanted to try.  I finished it over the weekend and blocked it today.  I will post a photo tomorrow.  The verdict is still out about how I feel about this shape.  However, in general I find triangle shawls hard to wear.  And yet I often like the beginning of the triangle shawl.  

The yarn is sensible sock knit on size 5 needles.  I have stored the written pattern the came with the kit in the kitchen file.  It was a very mindless knitted product.

In February 2024, I realized that I had never posted a photo of the finished product.  So today I am posting Color Courage.  

Incan spice yarn

I started a project with Incan Spice yarn that I bought in Lexington from the store that was going out of business a few years ago.  Mitzi and I had transported several dogs and cats and we treated ourselves to a stop in the knitting store.  I love this yarn!  I love the colors.  It is fingering weight and has a bit of silk in it as well as baby alpaca and extra fine merino.  The yarn is a bit splitty and I am finding it too hard to work with in the pattern that I have chosen.  So I am going to put the project up until I choose something else.  If the project I am working on right now works out ok, I may do a shawl that is similar in shape.  Where one begins with a triangular shawl but then switches to a longer and less deep shape.  The pattern that I am using is Color Courage that I bought from the shop owner of Lakeside Yarn.  I will just add my own stripes and patterns to the basic shape.  I am going to put the project in a small basket on top of the bookcase in my bedroom.

 

Scrunchies

The Goldy twins received scrunchies for Christmas that have been knitted.  They are very cute and I thought I might make a few.  They came from American Eagle....so it might be just as easy to purchase.  They are knitted as a tube with a hair rubber band inside and then seamed.  Actually I am thinking that the hair band needs to be inside from the very beginning....The gauge is 6 stitches to the inch knit loosely.  

You can see the seam if you look carefully at the white scrunchie.  The length is  and the tube is approximately 3 inches in diameter.  But that measurement would not be crucial.  Here is a photo that shows the seam better:

The tube measures 18 inches in length.  I had Kya stretch the scrunchie out as far as it would go and it measured 9 inches so the entire tube would be double that.