On our recent travels I picked up a ball of Noro Silk Garden Sock, kind of an impulse buy at a yarn store I didn't expect to visit while in Bend, OR. I found Anne Carroll Gilmour's pattern for the Gaia Shoulder Hug on ravelry, an easy little knit (on 3.75 mm needles) using one ball of said yarn (Kureyon, actually, but the SG works fine too). I love the colourway, and the knit itself was easy and manageable in four days! There's an option in the pattern for a picot bind off using KBB (knit back backwards) which intrigued me very much, but I ran out of yarn so did a regular bind off instead. I guess I could have frogged back a couple of rows but I wanted to finish and block right away. I've worn it every day since finishing (all of two days), and am now planning to wear it to work. As a scarf in the front, or as a shawl held by a safety-pin style Celtic pin, this is a versatile little number.
This next shawl was another one-skein project, using Tofutsies, which I had originally intended for socks. However, another shawl seemed like a good idea so I found a pattern (Show your Colours, on ravelry) to suit the yarn. I thought this would be an easy knit on the road so I brought it with me for travelling on the interstates. Turned out that Hillflowers (several posts below) kept me captivated and motivated through the freeways so that was my road trip shawl after all. This one I finished when I came home. Knit on 3.25 mm needles, it took some time to knit about 450 yards, but the result is a lovely light and breezy summerweight shawl! Marianna is modelling:
On a lace roll now, I found a pretty pattern for a leaf lace scarf, Branching Out by Susan Lawrence. Perfect for my one skein of Manos silk blend, it knit up fast and was a pleasant experience knitting from a chart. Another accessory for fall.
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