February 23, 2015

Follow Your Arrow 2

Follow Your Arrow 2

Follow Your Arrow 2

I can't resist taking part in mystery shawl KALs, but often in my desire to get an interesting looking shawl I end up choosing color combinations that I don't actually want to wear, even though they are fun to knit. So, this time, with Ysolda's Follow Your Arrow 2 mystery KAL, I went with a boring yarn choice, all in one color. Not that the colorway itself is boring; Cephalopod Yarns Skinny Bugga! in the Blue Lobster colorway is one of my favorite colorways ever, even if hard to photograph. My shawl doesn't look as exciting as many of the more colorful ones people have knit in this KAL, but this is definitely a shawl I will actually wear.

I chose clue options based on what appealed to me the most, without looking at spoiler pictures. I changed my mind about the last clue; I started with 5A, but the knitted-on edging (never my favorite) was going slowly, and when I peeked at spoiler pictures and saw that I actually preferred the look of 5B, I frogged what I'd knit of the clue and started over with the other option. I think clues 4B and 5B in particular look beautiful together.

For blocking I used wires for the very first time, and was quite impressed by how practical they are.

Link to Ravelry project

6 comments:

  1. This is gorgeous. I'd wear that, too! (I don't do mystery; I need to know what it is first!)

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    1. Thank you! Yes, I can understand wanting to know what you're knitting :).

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  2. Stunning. I love the combination of texture with just a bit of lace, and the color is beautiful.

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