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:

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:

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.

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.