purple and blues handspun shawl

Hand spun hand knit shawl folded on a wooden desk. A keyboard is at the top of the frame with a yellow measuring tape unrolled along the bottom next to the space bar. There is approximately twelve inches of yarn from the bind off edge shown. This part of the shawl is a teal. There is also a lighter blue and green multicolor. The beginning of the shawl is purple.

All yarns are chain plied.

Purple: LavenderSheep Superwash Merino, "Purple Raspberry", 82 yards, 2012 (ravelry link)

Blue/Green: Happy Fuzzy Yarn Polwarth, "Gorge", 117 yards, 2015 (ravelry link)

Turquoise: Happy Fuzzy Yarn Superfine Merino, "Cobalt", 243 yards, 2016 (ravelry link) [maybe. i have another light blue yarn that may be cobalt.]

Photos

a hand knit shawl in progress out of purple handspun being held on “the poppy wars” by k f kuang p 442 (no significance to this page other than that’s where I am) next to orange flowers and in front of a small water feature

a hand knit shawl in progress out of purple, blues, and blue-green handspun on a wooden desk next to a keyboard. a strand of green and blue yarn is held in place by a clear quilting ruler. the yarn measures 18in (45.75 cm) in length.

a hand knit shawl in progress out of handspun being held on an open book in front of a chimenea with a small fire

Hand spun and knit shawl with c3 in progress on the garden as safe space blanket

a hand knit shawl in progress out of purple, blues, and blue-green handspun on a wooden desk next to a keyboard.

Hand spun and knit shawl laid flat on a wooden floor. The ends are not woven in.

Log

Ultimate yarn chicken

15 August 2023

Bound off with twelve inches (30.5 cm) remaining! It’s a small shawl and thankfully big enough I can wear it. I hope when I actually block it it grows a little bit. I’m thrilled to finally knit these yarns. Soon it’ll be shawl season again and I look forward to wearing it.

zooming along

8 August 2023

While not on zooms (thankfully) but knitting as car passenger to/from site visit, evening TV (Grantchester) and during my morning coffee with "the gang" it's amazing how fast a shawl knits up when at 4.5 spi ! I miscalculated in the car yesterday because I dropped the ball so I've altered the fade between C2 (Happy Fuzzy Yarn Polwarth in colorway "gorge") and C3 (Happy Fuzzy Yarn Superfine Merino in colorway "cobalt") to be a bit longer. The Colbalt is spun finer (and potentially plied with a much higher twist) than the other two so I'm curious how it'll look. Or if this morning I further miscalculated and I'll run out of C2 before I finish this final garterstitch ridge before I switch completely to C3.

Delightful

6 August 2023

This shawl is practically knitting itself. Why do I neglect my own handspun? Wish I had more of this purple. I don’t remember spinning it. I think it’s this LavenderSheep Superwash Merino 3ply (chocolate raspberry) — I spun it in October 2012 and is 83 yards.