WIPs

Frogging can definitively be the best thing ever. And that’s what happened here. I found the perfect sweet proportions in my opinion for this lace border.

… And it’s not the end of the world. It may be painful or frustrating, but sometimes frogging is the best thing which can happen to your current WIP. As it is for me now.

Now that I turned almost all of my main colour, Fée Violette (= Violet Fairy), into a shawl body, I need to get my ideas straight on how to work the border. At first, I intended to knit a plain garter stitch border. But, a lacey leave short row border is calling me.

This new shawl was an asymmetrical triangular shawl design, with lace on the inside and a huge garter stitch border in a contrasting colour. Well, it turns out that this shawl was not meant to be. As beautiful as it could be, I did not felt it was right with this yarn.

Brioche knitting allow us to add some vertical stripes in our knits, something which is not so easy to implement otherwise. Near the end of this shawl I felt the need to balance all this vertically with horizontal stripes. Because what’s better than stripes ? More stripes!

Blue has grown on me lately. I’m getting to some point where I really like pastel blues, turquoises, or even blue mints. And it does pair beautifully with one of my favourite colours, coral!

Garter stitch is basic, but garter stitch is epic. With its bumpy texture, it allows to mix the colours and showcase every shades of a yarn. Dont’t you love a good garter stitch ocean ?

One of my favourite stitch to knit is nupps, this little bundle of love yarn gets my heart every single time. It blooms with single plied yarn to show off the dyer work even more, and it has such a great graphic impact. Tips to work beautiful nupps everytime included 😉

Casting-on a bazillion stitches for a bottom-up shawl. Does it worth it? I think so, otherwise the lace border would not have been as pretty!