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Named after the craziness of my appearance on Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas last year, the original shawl that I wore on television was knitted in sock yarn scraps. I love knitting socks and have many, many small balls of ‘leftovers’, so I knitted that particular piece in order to make a dent in my leftovers stash. If you prefer to recreate that one, simply follow the pattern, but replace the yarn with your sock yarn scraps and use a 3.25mm needle instead. Introduce your colours on the ‘right’ side and vary the numbers of double rows you knit with them to avoid too obvious a ‘stripe’ effect. I particularly liked having a few lines of a glittery sock yarn in there, to give it a little bit of sparkle. This shawl is a little easier, in that the main yarn is a colour-changing yarn so it doesn’t take any fiddling about with different scraps / ends etc. (Reference photographs included in the pattern).
You will need:
Around 250g (650m more or less) worsted weight yarn. Gauge doesn’t really matter here, as you are going to be going by length rather than stitch numbers.
I used Lion Brand “Shawl in a Cake” in colourway “Calming Desert” for the colour-changing part, and Malabrigo Worsted in “Purple Mystery” for the added strip, and an orange colour that I had left over for the picot bind-off. (I have since discovered that Shawl in a Cake has been discontinued, though you can still pick one up here and there). For the main part of your shawl, you will need about 150g / 440m colour changing worsted weight yarn. You will need another 100g / 200m approx. of a complimentary colour or two for the end stripe.
4mm circular needle, as long as possible.
Tapestry needle for sewing in ends.
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