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Red Charlotte’s Web

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Things have been quiet here on the blog. I’ve been writing a lot and solving a lot of publishing things – I’m still knitting and crafting but have been waiting to have a finished project to show you.

Here’s one.

This project jumped onto my needles after our trip to the Koigu Tent Sale in August. You might remember my acquisitions:

Deborah Cooke's acquisitions at the Koigu Tent Sale 2023

Those three reds were screaming to become a shawl, along with the grey/red mix and one of the lighter greys off to the right. (Not the lightest one.) Those two light greys look like a progression in hue, but they’re actually two dye lots of the same colourway. The right one is a bit more blue.

I showed you the shawl in progress, but here it is again:

Charlotte's Web knitted in five colours of Koigu KPPPM by Deborah Cooke, in progress

I used a longer colour transition than the one recommended in the pattern: this is the one that The Unique Sheep suggests with their graduated colourways. It takes 24 rows when you’re working back and forth, 12 if knitting in the round. When changing from A to B and knitting back and forth:

With B, work 2 R.
With A, work 6 R.
With B, work 4 R.
With A, work 4 R.
With B, work 6 R.
With A, work 2 R.

In the round, the row counts would be 1, 3, 2, 2, 3, 1.

It’s interesting how much evident the colour changes are in a photograph than in real life.

Here it is, fresh off the needles:

Charlotte's Web knitted in five colours of Koigu KPPPM by Deborah Cooke

This used pretty much all of those five skeins of Koigu KPPPM – the bind-off I-cord is knit in the leftover red from my Lunenberg Cardigan. My Ravelry project page is here.

Here it is, stretched out to block. I was amazed that it blocked to 80″ – wingtip to wingtip – by 45″ deep.

Charlotte's Web knitted in five colours of Koigu KPPPM by Deborah Cooke, blocking

Here it is finished up (well, the ends need to be stitched in.)

Charlotte's Web knitted in five colours of Koigu KPPPM by Deborah Cooke, done

And a detail shot:

Charlotte's Web knitted in five colours of Koigu KPPPM by Deborah Cooke, done - detail

I did think it was too stretched after I’d blocked it, so I tossed it into the dryer with some towels that were finished up. (Just for about 10 minutes.) That took it down 4″ in the length and about 8″ across the top, and also improved (to me) the look and feel of the stitches.

I want to make another shawl, maybe not with the same stitch pattern, from those skeins to the right of the reds. I’ll start with the almost-black and work down to the pale grey. That will give me four skeins, so it will be a bit smaller than this one. I have a partial skein in a lovely purple-pink mix that will be great for the I-cord bind-off.

I’ve also been working on an Entrelac scarf for the mister in that Noro from the thrift store. I’ll show you that next week, whether it’s done or not. 🙂

2023 Trip to the Koigu Tent Sale

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I’m a day late this week in posting. Holiday Mondays tend to throw my game. I wrote on Monday, but didn’t get the other things done.

One thing we did in August was run away for the day to the Koigu Tent Sale. We always take a picnic and enjoy the scenic drive – plus, of course, there’s yarn that comes home with us.

Here’s what I bought this year:

Deborah Cooke's acquisitions at the Koigu Tent Sale 2023

It’s all Koigu KPPPM. (That link will take you to the Koigu site.)

I’m always looking for purply-blue yarn, esp since I used up the Koigu KPPPM that I had in blue for my Halo cardigan. I think this lot on the left will replace that lot 🙂 for a Latitude sweater. (That’s a Ravelry link.) I still have a lighter blue and white for the contrast.

The turquoises on the bottom row coordinate with the leftovers from my Navelli and will likely become a shawl.

The row with the burgundy through the black will become two shawls with gradient hues – the reds have already jumped onto my needles for another Charlotte’s Web shawl. (Another Ravelry link there.)

Here’s a picture of it in progress:

Charlotte's Web knitted in five colours of Koigu KPPPM by Deborah Cooke, in progress

So far, these are in the order of the stash pic above, but I’m going to end with one of those pale greys. They’re the same colour but different dye lots – the left one will finish out my red shawl and I have scraps of another red – from my Lunenberg cardigan – for the I-cord bind-off. I prefer that to a fringe. The black and grey shawl will only have four skeins, so it’ll be a bit smaller. I have bits of a purple-pink mix to bind off that one which will be fun.

It’s interesting how much easier it is to see the colour changes in a picture than in real life. I’m using a 24R transition instead of the 16R one suggested in the pattern, the same sequence recommended when using Unique Sheep gradients. (My Urdr shawl is an example, though knit in laceweight.)

I also found some Noro Silver Thaw at the thrift store recently (that’s a Ravelry link) which will probably jump queue and leap onto my needles.

Noro Silver Thaw

There are three skeins but I’ve already balled up one of them. I wanted to see how the colourway would work, whether it would stripe or fleck. It will stripe, like most Noro yarns, so I’m going to make an entrelac scarf and hat from this lot.