One shawlette pose.
O hai variety.
The lighter blue is Brooks Farm: I was lucky enough to go to Maryland Sheep & Wool this year, and made a beeline for the Brooks Farm booth; after hearing about it for so long, I was super-exited to try it. I ended up with one skein of Willow, a wool-bamboo blend, and, while I LOVE how it blocked out-the bamboo gives it drape & a gorgeous sheen-I was totally mad that my skein had a bunch of breaks in it.
Boo. But seriously, the yarn itself is lovely, as is the pattern: Kate’s Springtime Bandit. One thing to watch out for if you knit this is that on the first couple charts the WS rows aren’t charted out, because they’re just straight purling, but on the final chart the WS rows ARE charted, because there’s a little bit of patterning going on there. I wasn’t paying attention, so my shawl has a couple extra rows in there-I couldn’t be arsed to frog once I realized what was going on.
The darker blue is completely fracking amazing and I love it intensely. It’s another Ishbel, minus the edge chart: I went with the large count for the stockinette section, and was planning on the small lace section, but I was running out of yarn, so it’s, like, 2/3 of the small lace section.
What really makes it amazeball though is the yarn, which is zomg gorgeous. It’s a wool/silk blend from a Canadian dyer, Impulse of Delight, in her Aubergine colorway, although I would describe it as midnight blue rather than eggplant. I love it the most. I want all of her colorways now. Nom.
Next up: exciting sewing! (also in blue. VARIETY!)