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 \u2018leftovers\u2019, 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 \u2018right\u2019 side and vary the numbers of double rows you knit with them to avoid too obvious a \u2018stripe\u2019 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\u2019t take any fiddling about with different scraps \/ ends etc. (Reference photographs included in the pattern).<\/p>\n
You will need:<\/p>\n
Around 250g (650m more or less) worsted weight yarn. Gauge doesn\u2019t really matter here, as you are going to be going by length rather than stitch numbers.
\nI used Lion Brand \u201cShawl in a Cake\u201d in colourway \u201cCalming Desert\u201d for the colour-changing part, and Malabrigo Worsted in \u201cPurple Mystery\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
4mm circular needle, as long as possible.<\/p>\n
Tapestry needle for sewing in ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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