Monday 7 January 2013

It's 2013. So let's begin with a new shawl pattern. http://www.patternfish.com/patterns/13368
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It's done with 2 shades of the same colour of fingering yarn. Lyn put 2 different yarns in the same dye bath and each yarn took up the dye differently. One is darker than the other.
Which gives it a striped affect.
When using 2 colours you have to twist the yarns somewhere when changing colours. The usual place is at one edge. Since this shawl begins at the centre of the top edge I thought that carrying the yarn down one side might lead to that edge being tighter or looser. So I changed colours down the centre, twisting the yarns on the wrong side. 
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This is the wrong side view. It worked really well.

3 comments:

  1. So beautiful! And you are so clever, especially about the yarn twisting thing.

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  2. I use a lot of hand dyed yarns which vary in the way you describe, but I'd never considered changing yarns in the centre like that. Ingenious! I must try it for myself ☺

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  3. Beautiful pattern.

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