What happened to spring?

Our friend Brian Smith has a new shawl pattern out. His colours are shouting Spring. Unfortunately spring left us today. It is cold and rainy and we have a chance of snow tonight.

This top down half circle shawl has panels of reverse stocking stitch separated by lines of slipped stitches. A bright pink wavy border stands out from the crowd. 

Meet Sapinka. You can purchase the pattern on Ravelry.

Brian used Skinny Singles - one skein each of Villain and Jelly.

Here are a few more colour suggestions in Skinny Singles

Hush
Beach Bunny

1790
Wish
(This would look with Graphite as well)

Oracle
Graphite

I pulled a few skeins from our latest GarnStories order for the shawl.

Pesto
Chasing Birds

Coachella
Pesto

Yes, I'm a bit obsessed with Pesto.

LYS Day

If you purchase Woolstok we will give you the download code for this sock pattern.

Knit from the top down in Woolstok; a 100% Highland Peruvian Wool, the Sanborn Socks are extremely soft and warm on your feet. This intermediate pattern is written for both women’s and men’s sizes. Pick your two favorite colors and cast on.

The sock pattern comes in men's and women's sizes. They are knit on 3.25mm and 3.5mm needles.

If you spend over $100 on LYS Day we will give you a travel size bottle of Soak.
90ml (3oz)
18 washes

What is it: Soak is modern laundry care. Clean up with Soak’s eco-friendly formulation. Developed to be as easy on the environment as it is on your clothes, it’s the no-rinse clean you trust and love.

Soak is perfect for your laciest lingerie, softest sweaters, baby clothes, quilts, swimwear, workout wear and all the laundry you love. love it. wear it. soak it.

It’s great for travel, gifting or guests.

How it works: Just Soak and squeeze. No need to rinse. Lay knits flat to dry. Wash sets (like lingerie) together. Test fabric for color-fastness.

• made with plant derived and renewable ingredients
• biodegradable, phosphate-free, dye-free, sulphate-free
• safe for hand or machine washing (including HE)
• flight friendly

Purchase 3 skeins of fingering weight yarn we will give you the code to download Casapinka's LYS Day shawl pattern. I don't have pictures yet but here is a link to her Ravelry page to see the shawls that she designs.


I have created a page for LYS Day and will be adding as we add.

At the top of the blog you will see LYS Day - Saturday April 20. Click on this for updates.

I am now 7" past the armholes on my Throwback. I'm signing off to get more knit tonight. There won't be much knitting tomorrow. Aunt Rene and Aunt Barb are coming over to make lasagna and freeze it for Easter dinner. Beth and I are hosting and we decided that turkey was way too much work. And everyone loves Aunt Barb's lasagna.