Penny's Notebook

Color Affection

5 foot 2 inch person wearing jeans and a tan sweater Wearing the grey and green striped shawl. Their back is mostly to the camera and they are in front of a white wall.
Project Info
  • Pattern — Color Affection by Veera Välimäki
  • Project Type — Shawl/Scarf
  • Project started — 2023-03-05
  • Project completed — 2023-04-02
  • Worked with — 4mm needle
  • Yarn(s) — 85g molly girl boogie woogie in “between halloweens” (grey); 70g artyarns merino cloud in “2246” (charcoal tonal);90 g mystery fingering weight (tonal greens)

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I’ve wanted to work up this design for over a decade… finally realized that it won’t knit itself.

It’s well planned… by the time I was bored with the solid section, I began the stripes. As that began to be tedious, I started the short rows. They were apparently so engaging that I knit extra repeats.

The shawl is huge and squishy and I love it. One day I’ll measure it.

Project Log

  • More changes

    It’s warm enough to sit outside and knit this afternoon. Realized that the Haiku is very shiny compared to my other yarns. Went stash diving with my scale and found a mystery green that fits perfectly. I may be off by a few stitches but here’s to C2 and short rows.

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  • stripe by stripe

    At 6 C1 stripes. The merino cloud is showing darker for the most part than I expected when presented next to the molly girl. I like it an am definitely cuious how the haiku will look when added to the mix.

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  • color change for color love

    Swapping out the Old Maiden Aunt in Cold Sheep for Artyarns Merino Cloud in a tonal dark charcoal grey (2264). I kept questioning the choice so it made sense to make a change, however I don’t quite have a good third solid so I hope this isn’t too tonal! Now if I could just do…

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beginning of color affection shawl, a row in progress. yarn is a light grey and it's shown on a silver background
Tuxedo cat looking at a zip project bag with three cakes of yarn in light grey, blue-purple, and purple. a computer keyboard is in the background.
Grey and charcoal striped garter stitch knit shawl in progress shown on a distressed wooden floor
Grey and charcoal striped garter stitch knit shawl in progress shown on a distressed wooden floor next to the 3 cakes of yarn chosen for the project
A tuxedo cat laying on the shawl in progress and looking at the camera. The cat is on a grey couch.
The grey and green striped shawl laid flat on a distressed wooden floor
5 foot 2 inch person wearing jeans and a tan sweater Wearing the grey and green striped shawl. Their back is mostly to the camera and they are in front of a white wall.
Binding off the grey and green striped shawl
5 foot 2 inch person wearing jeans and a tan sweater Wearing the grey and green striped shawl. Their back is mostly to the camera and they are in front of a white wall.
5 foot 2 inch person wearing jeans and a tan sweater with shawl wrapped tightly around the body. They are sideways to the camera and looking to the left.
5 foot 2 inch person wearing jeans and a tan sweater holding up the grey and green striped shawl. They are standing in front of a white wall.

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