Here’s another project that’s jumped up the queue again. It’s perfect for tv knitting.

The pattern is called Which Way. It’s by Stephanie Shiman, and here’s a Ravelry link for the pattern. I’m knitting mine with the solid colour rows in garter stitch – that means 1 row is knit on the way back instead of purled.

The solid-ish yarn was purchased on our trip to Maine a few years ago. It’s a bundle of gradient mini skeins from Dirty Water Dye Works. The yarn is called Lilian and the colourway is Mulled Wine I bought two of them. (That link is to the Dirty Water Dye Works website.) I try to buy local-ish yarns when travelling and these bundles of mini-skeins were dyed in Boston or thereabouts.

I’m always fascinated by mini-skeins and love gradients – the challenge is deciding what to do with them. I had a good yardage for stripey socks, but the yarn is 100% merino. A shawl it would be. I started with the darkest colourway and will work to the palest one, then back out again.

That variegated yarn is Thede from the Yarns of Rhichard Devrieze, a localish dyer to me. The colourway is Malahide and I bought two skeins. (That’s a Ravelry link.) I chose the colourway because it had all the gradients in it, and because it wasn’t a usual choice for me. That’s also why the project stalled for a bit. I wasn’t sure I liked it.

I’m into the second mini-skein of the solid-ish yarns and the combination is growing on me.

This shawl grows symmetrically, then the center decrease begins to move toward one edge. That gives it kind of a triangular shape, or maybe an arrow. (You can see it better in some of the projects on Ravelry.) I think I’ll keep increasing until I’ve used one bundle of mini-skeins, then change direction as I work my way back from lighter to darker.

I have more yardage than required, so this might be a huge shawl. The pattern calls for about 700m in total between the two colours – I have that in Thede and another 500 in the Lillian. The Thede is a superwash with 20% nylon, so it could become socks – maybe with stripey cuffs in Lillian. OTOH, big shawls are cozy.

We’ll see how it goes.