shawl

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.

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.

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 ?

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! 

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.

One of the best part of being a designer is seeing YOU knitting the patterns I designed. Here are a few example to inspire you the next time you’ll be in search of a shawl pattern.