A decade ago

I’m seeing a lot on Instagram about looking back to 2016. Andrea Mowry showed some of her patterns from 2016 in her latest newsletter. 

One pattern that came out was Find Your Fade. 

This is the start of my first Find Your Fade from December 2016.

Here is Andrea’s version. Unfortunately Hedgehog has discontinued one of the colours so we can’t match the colours exactly but I can put together something equally as beautiful.

You can purchase the pattern for Find Your Fade on Ravelry.

Starting at a single point and growing, shifting and fading into a piece that begs to be wrapped up in. This asymmetrical triangle shawl uses some clever increasing and decreasing, combined with relaxing garter stitch and simple lace so that you have a fun-to-knit canvas to play with mixing colors on! This shawl is all about making it your own. Let your creativity shine!!  

Get creative - this is YOUR shawl! Use only 1 color, or 3, or 10. Need help with color selections? I highly recommend diving into your stash (or the shelves of your LYS) and untwisting the skeins and then laying them next to each other. Look for nuances that can be seen from one color to the next - if your first color has some gold (like mine), why not snag an awesome speckled skein that also has some gold and another color you love (ahem - pink), so that after the speckled skein you can start stitching up that favorite pink skein you have been hoarding! And so on and so forth! Still feeling nervous? Head on over to my Ravelry group and show some pictures of the yarn you are trying to decide between! Everyone there loves to help!!

I finished the shawl by the middle of January 2017. I couldn’t put the shawl down because it was such a fun knit. So fun that I knit it twice more.

The furnace in the store started acting up on Saturday. I spent the day in the store yesterday waiting for the repairman to come fix it. After a few hours he said it was good. I accomplished a lot of paperwork but got home after dark by the time he was done. I was cold and tired and after dinner went for a nap. When I woke up Beth had picked a movie. It didn’t win any Academy Awards but it kept us laughing. I couldn’t stop watching to post. 

This morning I went to the store and it is nice and warm again. After errands I sat and knit for a bit.

I’m two rows short of the halfway point. I am obsessed. I think there will be another one in my future. Th only problem is that Boscoe can’t keep picking up my ball of Dyed in the Wool. Dad thinks it’s so funny and keeps telling Boscoe to bring it to him.

I’m early today because this afternoon I’m having my hair cut. Then it’s my job to make dinner since it was my day off. There will be some more knitting tonight.