I was looking at projects on the weekend. I finished a thing and then couldn't decide what to work on. The little red sweater that I knit for a family event was not needed because in the end, I did not go. No rush to finish it's sleeves and knit it longer now. The gray sweater? I've been a little too faithful to it. I fear I am a bit bored with only that texture in my hands. I went through the vast pile of WIPs and didn't feel like any of them. Of course that means only one thing.
I started something new!
A few months ago, I piggy backed a bunch of Brigg's and Little Sport onto a friends order.
It did not get tucked away in the last stash dive. I did not want to tuck it away because I meant to knit it right away. And right away is now.
I bought it with a project very much in mind. I may have bought it with 2 projects in mind, actually. it's a lot of yarn. One project, will be out of the leftovers of the first and will be for me. The main project is for Olga's grandmother.
Olga's grandmother is a woman who understands a shawl in a way that is hard to imagine for me. She was born in a place and a time when shawls were worn regularly particularly by older women. I knit one for her a few years ago, and she loved it. Sadly it has been worn and worn and is getting a little ratty and moth eaten. That happens when you wear something almost everyday. This is such a honour, to have something you knit be worn out because it was worn so well and enjoyed so much.
I have known about the need for another for a few months and took some time to think about what I would enjoy knitting and what she would enjoy wearing. I wanted the shawl to be square again, and the Brigg's and Little Sport was a given because it is so lovely warm and it is a purely Canadian yarn from sheep to mill to me. It also has this marvelous range of gradient heathered greys. How could I not?
Pattern was a little more difficult. Originally, I thought about one of the lovely Icleandic patterns from the iconic Þríhyrnur og langsjöl / Three-cornered and long shawls by Sigridur Halldorsdottir. I hemmed and I hawed, but couldn't settle. One of the problems is that I would have needed all the gradient browns to do the ones I like, the way I wanted and gosh darn it, even I have to cry 'uncle' sometimes.
The pattern I decided on is Hansel by Gudrun Johnston . I love the way she sets the colours in her border and while gradient is more what I am interested in for this project, it will look wonderful with the in and out flow of dark to light.
I am using the Sheep's Gray, the lightest grey for the centre and keeping the darker greys for the lace border. It hardly seems like I started, though I did a fair bit of knitting on it over the weekend. I have all day today and really nothing other than spinning, going on till Wednesday, when my wee kiddies are coming to me.
And closing off on that point, kiddies! Because I love them so.
My Superheros each and everyone of them.
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