Gradient

The Exordium Shawl

I saw this post on Instagram and wanted to share with you.

You can get the pattern for the Exordium Shawl on Ravelry.

Exordium means “the beginning of anything.” So, I thought it was a fitting name for my first pattern release. 

Exordium starts with just two stitches and grows into an asymmetrical triangle that drapes perfectly when wrapped around your neck and shoulders.Sections of relaxing garter stitch are paired with stripes and lace sections to keep things interesting. 

Your favorite speckled and variegated fingering weight yarns will work especially well with this design. Choose two colors with a lot of contrast or two colors that blend together – both options will be beautiful. 

Color: For this sample I used 2 skeins of Hedgehog Fibres Skinny Singles. 1 in the colorway Pheasant and 1 in the colorway Salty Tales.

Take a look in your stash. I'm pretty confident you have a few skeins of fingering weight that would work for this shawl.

We have new gradient kits from Urth Yarns.

For those who like to have fun transitions and stay within the same colour at the same time.

Merino Gradient Kits from Urth Yarns are the perfect way to create beautiful projects with interesting fades. Each kit comes with four 50g skeins dyed in the same tones to make a perfectly blended project, and includes a pattern for the Garden Trellis Shawl

The yarn is fingering weight, 100% superwash merino and each skein is 200m.

This kit would be great for a Hitchhiker.

We used gradient kits for our shawls (Cathy's is above and mine is below).

Boscoe had a bath yesterday. I can't tell if he was happy about this. Lynn commented that I haven't shown many Boscoe pictures lately. The trainer sends a few pictures a week. This past week Boscoe visited a children's centre. I didn't want to share pictures of kids that I don't know.

He is doing well at training but there have been time outs. The trainer says that he is very confident and likes to do things his way. Great - another stubborn dog.