I posted photos of this shawl back in July. I made it with Swans Island Organic Merino Fingering, an amazingly soft and squishy yarn in lovely colors as a shop sample for Warm 'N Fuzzy for my design your own shawl class. Well, the shawl itself has gotten a lot of interest while hanging in the shop, and so I'm finally going to write and publish the pattern. The shawl is off in the mail to Katy to be properly photographed (you'll see from the evidence below that I'm a terrible photographer) and this pattern is ready to be test knit! If you'd like to test knit this for me, I'm doing it in the Free Pattern Testers Group on Ravelry.

Lola's Lace Shawl

I posted photos of this shawl a while back. Well, I've finally published the pattern! Lola's Lace Shawl is currently available only to email subscribers. Feel left out? Want to join in on the fun? Well here's what you missed: October Newsletter: Free Exclusive Pattern and New Patterns from Mari Knits.

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WIP Wednesday: Pine Cone Shawl

I can't share most of the things I'm working on right now, I actually have two things blocking right now, which makes me feel very productive. Here's one of my WIPs, a shop sample of the Pine Cone Shawl. This is made with Frog Tree Pediboo, which is a merino and bamboo blend that is really nice to work with. It has the silkiness of bamboo without the splitty quality of 100% bamboo. I haven't gotten to the lace section yet, and honestly I haven't been working on it very much.

WIP

The original

FO Friday

I didn't have anything to show you on Wednesday not because I don't have tons of WIPs, but because they are all still secrets. Anyways, I've finished the shawl I talked about a few weeks ago. It's actually quite lovely and I really like Swans Island yarn.

This will be the sample for my Design Your Own Shawl class at Warm N' Fuzzy, a lovely new yarn shop in Cary, NC that will be opening next week.

Here are a couple photos:

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WIP Wednesday

Ok, following the cue from many other bloggers I'm going to try to update on what I'm working on every Wednesday.

A lot of the things I'm working on right now are top secret, but here's one that is not, and I started a few days ago.

I blogged about the beautiful Swans Island Yarn a couple weeks ago, and I was going to make a second Miya Shawl, well, things have changed a bit and now I'm going to teach a class on designing your own shawl at Warm N' Fuzzy, so I've been working on a sample for the class.

I started with a garter tap, and increasing 4 sts every right side row in stockinette stitch. I got really bored, so I found an easy stitch pattern that just required an odd number of stitches, and now I'm striping that with stockinette. I haven't quite decided what the border will be, but here's a not great photo (it's rainy here in Raleigh today, and no good lighting can be found)

Coming soon: Shawl with Wolle's Color Changing Cotton

Back in May I met Elisabeth, the genius behind Wolle's Yarn Creations and she gave me another skein of the beautiful and amazing color changing cotton. I've designed another shawl with this beautiful yarn! It's not ready yet, but here are some quick photos that Brian took today. The pattern is about to be tested.

In the 10 minutes that we were outside in the heat and humidity we each managed to get about 6 bug bites, and as I'm sitting here typing I stop to itch every 30 seconds.

Oh, and this is another un-named pattern. Any suggestions?

Remember those teasers?

Remember this green yarn?

And this picture?

Well thanks to Katy Doyle I now have pictures of the finished shawl!

Now you're going to ask me where's the pattern? Well, it's still in the works, but I hope to publish it by June 1st!

Miya Shawl is here!

The Miya shawl was inspired by Lotus Yarns' Miya yarn, which is a lovely fingering weight yarn that is made of 70% mink, 20% merino, and 10% silk. 

 The shawl is knit from one end to another and is a crescent shape, with the ends measuring about 4" wide and the middle about 20" wide. You can see it here on Ravelry.

This is a picture of the lovely Jasmine wearing the Miya shawl!

I will give this pattern away for free to 5 random people!
To participate post a comment to this post between now and January 31st at 24:00 EST with your email and/or ravelry ID!

You can also buy it on Ravelry here, or click the buy now button below.