You know how sometimes you just get an idea in your head and instantly it’s all you can think about and then you CAN’TSTOPWON’TSTOP until it’s a real thing in your hands?
So I was organizing the yarn bins a few weeks ago and realized I had this whole collection of neutral-ish yarns in the DK-to-light-worsted range that all looked quite nice together and yet they had gathered over the years because I did not know what (or what else, since some were leftovers) to do with them. I guess I must have been confused about their usefulness simply because I put each one away individually, because as soon as I saw them all together I knew what I had to do.
I took what I knew about basic triangle shawl construction and just knit until each ball of yarn was gone or I was bored with it.
At the color transitions I worked an eyelet row (yo/k2tog on one side of center and yo/ssk on the other) sandwiched between 2 purl rows on the right side. Other than that, it was all stockinette stitch forever.
The last stripe was the only one where I didn’t knit until I was out of yarn, because I still had like 3 full balls of that gray and I already suspected the thing was quite large, so I did the color transition pattern, a plain row or 2, repeated the transition pattern, and then did a picot bind-off.
Which was a good plan, since it turned out my suspicions were correct.
I mean, I am not terribly big, and yet this is objectively huge, I think. I’ve taken to wearing it folded in half (so the green-ish section at the top center becomes the “point” of the triangle) because that makes it much more reasonable for being in public. Not that I haven’t already snagged it on my purse a few times anyways, but that’s a different story.
In conclusion: LOOK AT MY SHAWL YOU GUYS MY SHAWL IS SO GREAT AND BIG I LOVE MY SHAWL
Pattern: none to speak of
Yarn: from top center:
- Mad Color Fiber Arts Superwash Merino/Bamboo/Nylon Top, color Winter of my Discontent, that I partly spun and then traded on Ravelry to get the rest spun. Leftovers from these socks.
- Dale Garn Heilo, color 2391
- Berroco Inca Gold, color 6415. Leftovers from these mittens.
- Mystery yarn from a ton of yarn a coworker passed on to me years ago. No idea what it was, and there was just a tiny bit of it, but it has a bit of a halo and it felt super silky and I loved it for just those few rows we had together.
- Knit Picks Telemark, color Mink Heather and then Dove Heather
- Classic Elite Soft Linen, color 2292
- KP Mink Heather again
- CE Soft Linen, color 6572
- KP Dove Heather again
Needles: 5.5 mm bamboo circs
Started: 4/2/16
Finished: 4/9/16. Not even joking. I. KNIT. THIS. IN. A. WEEK! Me. The process knitter.
Dimensions: 96″ wingspan, 45-ish inches down the spine. I myself am something like 61-and-a-fraction inches tall barefoot, so.
Very nice shawl! And a great idea for the leftovers.
Thank you! I’m definitely putting this idea on the list for all future leftovers.
It’s gorgeous! Those colors really do go together so well. It’s funny how sometimes yarns just fall together like that when you’re organizing.
I know! I’ve had so many of these kicking around for YEARS and it was just when I was cleaning stuff out and trying to sort by weight that I realized how perfect they were.
wonderful use of those leftovers!!!! LOVE IT!!!! (can you tell the wheels are spinning….and I’m thinking of my bowl of fingering wt leftovers?!?!?)
This would be a great use of your leftovers!!! And probably a much more human size in fingering weight.