This shawl is an ode to cold, calm, and white snowy days that winter gracefully give us sometimes. The shawl starts at the centre edge and is worked as a half-pi shaped shawl. Its double yarn over stitch pattern progress throughout the body of the shawl getting more scattered as you progress. The stripy lace border is then worked in German Short Rows. Short rows are really simple to work and they are almost invisible on stocking stitch. This way the border almost blends in the shawl body.
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shawl
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Oh man, I love to block my knits. Maybe even a little too much.
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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.
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… 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.
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I have a deep love for single yarns and speckled yarn. Why? Oh, I’m glad you asked! To keep things sweet and short, I’m mesmerised by it.
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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.
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Evolving from a little spring sprout to full-grown foliage over the knitting, the Jeune Pousse shawl will wrap you and keep you warm and cosy throughout the cold winter months and allow you to bloom again when the Spring comes back.
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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 😉
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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!
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My new shawl pattern, Brioche for Teatime, developed in partnership with Le Chat qui Tricote for the Winter Box, is now available! Worked from the top centre down with i-cord selvedges, its body alternates between brioche stitch patterns and garter stitch sections to form its semi-circular.
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.
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 ?
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