I finished this back in April and am only now catching up on sorting out photos of finished stuff.
And here is a closeup:
I am very pleased with how this has come out. The pattern is Haruni, and I used 3.5mm needles. The yarn was some I spun a while back, and the colour changes have worked very fortuitously with the pattern. The only fly in the ointment was that it got a bit felted when I spun it in our rather temperamental washing machine after hand washing it. Needless to say the washing machine will not be remaining in our employ for very much longer. After some serious blocking the shawl is mostly recovered, though a bit fuzzier than before, and luckily is still perfectly wearable. It is more of a little scarf than a big snuggly shawl, but I think will be very useful in the neck of my coat once the weather cools down a bit.
It’s beautiful! And what an EVIL washing machine!
Thank you 🙂 The evil washing machine has got its comuppence, I have ordered a new one which should be arriving on Monday- hooray!
oh no! I roll mine in a big towel, fold the towel over and stand on it (gently) and it removes so much water. Looks good, nonetheless.
Dawn:)
Thank you 🙂 That is what I have been doing since the incident. It annoyed me because for the first two years of its life I had been happily spinning my hand wash stuff in the machine to get rid of the excess water with no problems, it is just over the last year that it has been quite so erratic. We have had the engineer out 5 times, and it still hasn’t actually fixed it, so I gave in the other day and ordered a new one (and a different make!).
What exquisite colouring!
I particularly love the way the purple is echoed on the longest edge.
Thank you 🙂 I am very pleased with how the colours have come out, but I’m afraid it was a bit more luck than judgement.
I did actually bring this along to Knit Nation, but completely forgot to wear it in all the excitement!