the impulse of a moment
It was a comment I saw in passing on my Ravelry forum: Dusk into Twilight isn't exactly a "small shawl." Yes, I thought. It's really not! I love using all of my yarn, so I had designed a large shawl. But really, there needed to be a smaller size. So, in early afternoon this past Sunday, I went stash diving in my bag of single skeins of Koigu PPPM, and chose three. (Strangely, two of them turned out to be the same colorway but different dye lots!)
Monday night I bound off, and this morning I blocked.
This one measures 58 inches across with a drop of 21 inches.
I love the size! (Even though I also adore the larger one).
Each of my skeins was marked 175 yards, and I used almost all of my first two colors. I ran out of the third color on the bind off, but since my color 2 was so similar to color 3, I finished up with that one. I would say you'd be safe with 215 yards per color, but if you want to use Koigu like I did, you could omit a repeat of the chart (4 rows) and feel comfortable about having enough to bind off. I will update the pattern soon, but for those who want to start immediately, I used one Stripe Combination 1 and one Stripe Combination 2. :)
I really questioned the wisdom of knitting this shawl with so much else to do. It reminded me of cleaning the house when I was supposed to be working on my Master's thesis: good idea, bad timing. But I couldn't stop myself; the colors in the Koigu were so beautiful! Monday morning I took a picture of Sunday's progress.
Monday night I bound off, and this morning I blocked.
This one measures 58 inches across with a drop of 21 inches.
I love the size! (Even though I also adore the larger one).
Each of my skeins was marked 175 yards, and I used almost all of my first two colors. I ran out of the third color on the bind off, but since my color 2 was so similar to color 3, I finished up with that one. I would say you'd be safe with 215 yards per color, but if you want to use Koigu like I did, you could omit a repeat of the chart (4 rows) and feel comfortable about having enough to bind off. I will update the pattern soon, but for those who want to start immediately, I used one Stripe Combination 1 and one Stripe Combination 2. :)
Labels: 7 Small Shawls Y3
posted by Romi at 9:39 AM
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Love it! And wishing I lived in a universe where an impulse of the moment resulted in a shawl a day later. I'm still on April impulses (and maybe one from February).
It's lovely! I have so many single skeins of Koigu,and now I know what to do with them. :o)
Yay!!! Now I don't have to do any calculating!! Thank you thank you! :o)
Oh, this is PERFECT! I will definitely be knitting this version, as "small shawl" is more wearable for me. :-)
Absolutely love this. I have a huge koigu stash and can't wait to give it a go. Thanks for the smaller size now I want to knit both.
Love it so much. Thanks or the smaller version. :-)
That's lovely! I was already thinking about knitting mine a wee bit smaller. Thanks!
So happy to see a smaller version! I'm too short to wear a large shawl, so I don't get to knit those patterns.
question, please..the koigu yarn you used is beautiful. do you remember the colors or recommend some to get close to the same colors above? thank you
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