Espe

We have a new shawl in the store. Diana finished it during the week. This is one of my favourite shawl patterns - it is called Espe and you can purchase it on Ravelry.

We used 2 skeins of Emma’s Practically Perfect Sock in the colour Sprout. You can also use Emma’s Super Silky, Malabrigo Sock, Malabrigo Ultimate Sock, Hedgehog Oh So Fine and SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock.

The shawl is knit on 5mm needles so it is very airy.

Inspired by the spectacular colors of the Colorado aspen groves in autumn, this wrap uses lace leaf motifs that let the beautiful colors of the gradient yarn take center stage (CHART ONLY).

The shawl is worked in one piece, side-to-side, from a tiny six-stitch cast on, and it increases along one edge forming a practical, elongated triangle. A simple yarn over edging is worked along the two longer sides; this can be used for finishing since the blocking wires can be easily threaded through the yarn overs.

This is the Espe that I knit years ago. It’s packed away in a box from the move - I should dig it out.

Yarn: 3 skeins of Arranmore Light
Needles: 5.5mm

The pattern is easy to follow and repeats throughout the shawl. You can make the shawl as big or small as you want.

I’m almost finished the first two balls - just a couple rows to go. Then I’m going back to my Happy Camp sweater.

Tonight’s dinner is ham. We didn’t have it on Easter weekend and it’s an easy meal while we’re watching golf. Sunday night is usually steaks but I didn’t want to be stuck outside and missing the action.

Have a good evening. Hope you’re playing with yarn.

King Salmon

Lynn has a new sweater. She finished it while I was away and left it hanging in the store. Adrienne was in today and I asked her to put it on for pictures.

Pattern: King Salmon (purchased on Ravelry)

Yarn: Baa Ram Ewe Donegal Twists

3 skeins of Leanan and 1 skein of Dagda

Needles: 3.75mm and 4.5mm but you should always swatch because everyone knits to a bit different tension

Lynn knit the 3rd size. She did a great job - the sweater is beautiful.

From Caitlin Hunter

King Salmon is knit from the top down in the round featuring short row shaping for the back neck and a bold salmon yoke motif. The yoke is intentionally quite deep for this design (see schematic for full fit details) so I recommend an oversized fit for the intended look and comfort. Sizing down below the recommended positive ease is not recommended for this style.

This is the leftover yarn.

Thank you Lynn and Adrienne for giving me pretty pictures in my post.

Three Season Tee

Wool & Pine has another new pattern. This is called the Three Season Tee and you can purchase the pattern on Ravelry.

Three Season Tee, Cardigan, and Pullover are all 30% off through April 13th — no code needed, discount applies automatically at checkout.

Three Season Tee has been the most requested pattern we’ve ever published. We get it. You loved the cardigan but you wanted short sleeves. A tee for the warm months, one that’s light and flirty, a knit you could actually wear in July. Here it is.

Seamless, top-down, with the same cables, lace, and rich textured stitch work you fell in love with, now in a v-neck tee designed for late spring through early fall. Style it up or down, either way you’ll wear it May through November.

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Design Details

Not to be smug about it, but we love a clean shoulder join. So the shaping flows naturally with the stitches through the shoulders, the front, and the back neckline, for a fit that’s easy and comfortable all day.

Customize the length and ease to make it your own, choose less for a slimmer fit or more so it’s loose and breezy. Bonus points for the built-in air conditioning: lace sides that let you breathe, with stunning cables and texture running front and back so you can show off your knitting prowess from every angle.

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Pattern Highlights

• Seamless top-down construction
• V-neckline shaped at the front and back
• Cables, lace, and textured stitch work on both front and back
• Scaled motif for visual balance across all sizes
• Customizable length and ease

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Construction Overview

Three Season Tee is worked seamlessly from the top down. The front panels begin with a provisional cast-on and are worked flat, then joined at the v-neck and continued flat to the underarm.

Back shoulders are picked up from the provisional cast-on and worked flat with back-of-neck shaping, then joined and worked as one piece down to the armholes.

At the underarm, the body is joined and worked in the round. The neckline and armholes are both picked up and finished with ribbing in the round.

The sweater is knit in fingering weight yarn. You can do a hand dyed yarn like Emma’s Practically Perfect Sock or Malabrigo Sock or go with a commercial dyed yarn like Kathmandu Fingering.

Most hand dyed yarns do not have a dye lot. Sweet Georgia Tough Love sock does come to us with dye lots on the labels. When we receive yarn from Emma’s or Hedgehog we put a number on the skeins. I think the last shipment was 392. In one shipment we might receive 4, 6, 8 or 12 of a colour. All skeins of that colour (from the same shipment) will have the same number. When you order any yarn from Emma’s or Hedgehog we will make sure that the lots (our numbers) match. You will not be receiving yarn that wasn’t dyed together. If we can’t match the skeins we will contact you and send pictures if necessary.

I took a break from ‘getting the store in order’ to write my post. This also gave me a chance to sit and watch the golf. I’m early today which will give me more knitting time tonight 🥰.

Ooey Gooey Cowl

Here are better pictures of my Ooey Gooey Cowl. I kept rotating the cowl so you can see the different colours. It was one of those projects that you have to keep knitting because you want/need to know what’s coming next.

I made kits with the new colours of Dyed in the Wool. These are available online and in the store.

Yesterday was all about kits. There will be many different colour combinations for Casapinka’s LYS Day shawl pattern. I’m not ready to share the colours yet because I’m still playing with them but here is a sneak peek.

Sorry - not much of a sneak peek. 🤣 The shawl is knit with two skeins of fingering weight yarn. 

Now back to my Inclinations Shawl. A few more days and the first colours will be finished. 

Train Knitting

My new project is Andrea Mowry’s Inclinations Shawl.

The shawl is knit with 6 skeins of Spincycle Dream State. I’m starting with Bitter Pill and Salty Dog. Then it will be Close Call with Something Wicked followed by Wild Horses with Melancholia.

I’m trying to get the first two balls knit before we leave. This means packing less yarn.

I’ve knit the shawl 3 times already. Here are pictures of two of them.

It’s a great project for knitting on the train. The pattern is repetitive and easy to remember. 

Beth was having a hard time working this afternoon. Her chair doesn’t fit anywhere near her desk.

New Hat Pattern

Susan Ashcroft has a new hat pattern that was released today. You can purchase Play Like Klee on Ravelry.

The hat is knit in worsted weight yarn so you have many, many yarn options. It’s a great way to use up your odd bits of yarn.

A fun to make colourwork hat you can work as EITHER:

stranded 
or mosaic (slipped stitches)

The pattern includes 3 charts:

• 5-colour version
• 9-colour version
• 2-yarn version (or you can use this chart to colour in and try your own colour sequence)

It is cold outside today. I worked from home and I was watching snowflakes coming down in the back yard.

More on this tomorrow.