Brandywine is done~ such a lovely and fun pattern. I used a yarn from stash purchased on Ebay oh my goodness at least 5 years ago. Mainly because I haven’t Ebayed yarn since the ex and I split up. No particulars on weight or yardage but I had a disappointingly large amount of yarn leftover. Disappointing because I am a large woman and like big shawls but followed the instructions to a T and now suspect I could have done more repeats. Anyway it is what I like to call purple. A marled yarn, 100% geelong marketed as fingering weight, composed of one strand of navy and one strand of purple. Aubergine of the blue black variety~~ YAY. More lovely shots:
Rosemary Hill is so very very clever. BTW this style of working the edging on with body ~ starting with a few stitches and working up towards a triangle~ was first seen, by me, in a Spin Off article written by Robert Powell. The issue is from the Winter of 1996 so probably impossible to get however if you can do library loan the pages are 30-37 inclusive for a tutorial and sample shawl. If you have any interest in shawl design there are a couple of pages covering motif placement within the body of shawl. I have been interested in the concept since I first read the article but never quite got around to applying it since the proliferation of lovely shawl designs can be a bit overwhelming. It is really nice to see it in use. FWIW Powell’s designs are not widely available. I believe he had a few in A Gathering of Lace but otherwise, with the exception of this article, I believe they are only available via Catherine Knits in kit form. Although…. I think his earliest kits are now available as patterns also from Catherine Knits. I have purchased kits, which I usually avoid like the plague, from Catherine and been very pleased with the service from her shop.
More pictures~ one of the point and another of the frame:
Earlier I said what I like to call purple and that is for a reason. A lot of times when people say purple I see red violet. Or just plain blue red which I consider red. Or lavender. Being a lover of the cooler end of the spectrum and all a lot of blue in a red is not purple but the shade of red I would wear. If that makes any sense. Now other people hear purple and think a totally different color. For example my middle daughter is quite fond of purple and I recently knit a lacy baktus for her. Mainly because she was trying to swap mine! I had taken her down to The Loopy Ewe one day while she was off of school and she picked out some Dream in Color Smooshy with Cashmere in Pixie Pour for herself. Okay in reality it was for me although I sincerely doubt I would have picked that shade for myself. Despite her claiming it was purple. Either way I was in the mood to shop and she *does* knit. Kinda.
And another daughter requested that I knit some Toast so that she can give them to one of her oldest friends on the Sweet 16 soiree coming up this Friday. Favorite color of BFF since Kindergarden? Purple of course. Thankfully Toast doesn’t take long to make since I only have a few days left:
As soon as I finish this purple pair of Toasts I need to knit another in some Dreams in Color Starry so that another daughter may gift them out. We are all fully outfitted in our Toasts and apparently they are still a big hit with the youngsters since my daughters’ friends make sure I hear how lucky my kids are to have me knit them. Hurray for knitting!
yarny days and knitterly evenings