I spent a great deal of time on the phone today, so instead I put together a couple of pins for keeping the shawl closed. Personally I can't decide which one I like better for this yarn.
Both of them can be clicked for larger versions. The one with the butterfly, I made with dark purple, deep sea green, and a grey peacock pearls, and with white and deep marine swarovski crystals. The follow your heart one I made with a single large half-moon pearl, and 2 golden shadow swarovski crystals.
Truthfully, I think the deep purple pearl gets lost in the beautiful purple of the yarn. The white pearl stands out more, and it glows within the purple yarn. I guess my preference is for the single white pearl this time. Now I need to make a shawl for the one with the deep colored pearls.
Given the amount of concentration the larger patterned shawls take, I'm thinking about putting up shawlettes here as well. I have several skeins of really nice yarn that I want to test with a simple pattern, but that aren't enough to make a large enough shawl to count for the 200 shawl project. These would be the kind of knitting that can be done while in groups or while being driven around. The kind of project I don't need to write a chart for, because I know the patterns by heart.
Something simple, that showcases the yarn at the heart of it. For instance, I have a skein of handmaiden camel spin in madder. It's roughly these colors:
Only slightly more brown. I would dearly love to knit this up, as I'm looking forward to autumn and the colors sing fall days to me. But it wouldn't make a full shawl to the sizes I've posted I would make here. I'm thinking maybe I'll knit up a shawlette and offer this as well, for folks who want something definitely luxurious but not necessarily large. Here's a link to the folks I borrowed the picture from, it goes to the exact product the picture references in case anyone wants some themselves.
I guess we'll see how it knits up.
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