My Dotted Rays with a Speckle Fade is done! It’s definitely my new favorite thing!
I love the chevron border with it’s high contrast! The purple yarn is MadTosh EuroSock and it’s parter in striping was a skein of Magpie Fibers MCN. It’s super soft. I don’t mind having leftovers from that skein!
The body is four colors, starting over at the upper right corner, faded together. Hedgehog Fibers Skinny Single in Boombox! Western Sky Knits MCN!! and then two skeins of Hedgehog Sock. I was unimpressed with the Hedgehog Sock. It was very think and rather splitty. I can’t imagine knitting actual socks with it. I’d need quadruple zero needles for that. No, I think my money is on the Skinny Single in the future.
Like all good shawls though, it’s only exciting until the next one comes off the needles. With that in mind, I’ve started my next WestKnit.
I culled at the skinny little scraps and half balls from the stash. Sometimes I think the only reason I use fresh skeins is to turns them into leftovers. I really love scrap projects!
This one is Stephen West’s Spring 2017 MKAL. I didn’t have time to do it then and I was still bummed about not loving the Building Blocks MKAL in the fall. This one is called Marled Magic! Despite kicking off with my least favorite stitch — YO, K2tog mesh, I knew I wanted to knit this shawl when I saw what Stephen did with all those ends on the side.
The tails are all cut at deliberate lengths. Instead of weaving them all in at the end (nightmare!!) they’ll be braided together down the center of the shawl, into a big tassel off the point. It’s a clever little treatment. I can’t wait to try it out. I’m willing to deal with a tassel for it!
Tomorrow, it’s back to jury duty. UGH. At least I’ll have knitting time!
