Keeping the Chill Off, the Summer Series

 I was  hoping to show you the second Tolsta Tee this morning but it lied.  I need to knit another stripe repeat before I can split for sleeves.  Gauge and measuring tapes lie.

Since it is cool and wet today (Hooray.  We are so dry here that our sump has only run three times this year.  In a normal year it would have run 6 - 8 times a day) I will show you how I keep off the chill down my back, the summer series.

The shawl I am wearing today is one of my least worn shawls.  It is also one of my loveliest shawls.  

It is a triangular shawl knit with a little pea type motif and a bit of a border out of 2 skeins of Arucania Ruca, a yarn made of sugar cane.  I have not worn it much because like all yarns made in a way similar to rayon, it is cool to the touch and light as a feather to wear.  Till recently,  with the advent of proper meds, I have been cold from the inside and cool fibres were not my thing.  But it is lovely and silky and slinky and it works well on warmer days.  All I need is a bit of a something to pull the collar on my sweater a bit closer to my neck and I am warm.

If I wasn't wearing this shawl, I would be wearing this one.  Again.

This is my  Holden Shawl knit in Drops Lin an sadly discontinues heavier weight linen.  Or lighter spun?  It is loftier than most linen yarns but it is delicious to work with and wear.  I knit this in 2012 and it is still one of my favourite things to wear on hot summer days when I just need a little something over the back of my neck. If they still made Drops Lin, I would have masses of it in stash.

Or I might be wearing this.

This is my Bitterroot Shawl, a very early design by Romi Hill found in  my forever favourite Knitty.  Spend some time going over the many favourite designs by so many people.  And then go knit a Bitterroot because you must.  I knit this in Handmaiden Flaxen and it explains why I have so much other yarn by  Fleece Artist and Handmaiden in my stash.  There are no words to say about how lovely this yarn is. 

It is a little to chilly for this one, but it is another thing that gets a lot of wear in warmer temps.   

The Winter Windows Silk Scarf by Margaret Radcliffe from Luxury Yarn One Skein Wonders.  I knit it in Drops Silke Tweed, a silk and Wool blend that I dearly love and miss.

And the last one that gets a lot of summer wear is this one.  It gets a lot of wear in winter too, because I just love this pretty thing. 

It is a Multnomah Shawl which is out there on the internet somewhere, but I knit it way back in the dawn of time from one of my very first Zauberballs.  I have knit the pattern a few time since and I still enjoy making it.

Some shawls I like for fibre content, some for size and the way they sit and some just because they remind me of happy things.  I don't wear them draped for a phot shoot.  I wear them in a more practical way, draped for warmth and coziness where I need it, on my upper back.  They may not look so pretty, tied at the front or pinned there as they most often are, but I love my shawls and I want them to snuggle into and remember.  There was a lot of joy knit into them and I treasure that.