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Papillon Done

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Papillon is a garter stitch short-row shawl worked in two colours, which I started in May. That link will take you to my first post. I used Noro Silk Garden Sock and a local black alpaca yarn from my stash. There’s a lot of counting with this one, and a lot of turning, but it’s a pretty easy knit otherwise. Here’s my finished shawl:

Papillon shawl knit in Noro Silk Garden Sock by Deborah Cooke

This is a big shawl! Mine probably feels more substantial because both yarns are a little heavier than a fingering weight, maybe closer to sport. It took all of the black that I had, and just over 2 balls of the Noro Silk Garden Sock.

This was an addictive knit, but then, it often works out that way for me with self-striping yarns.

I knit the shawl just as the directions instructed, but added some beads at the hem.

Papillon shawl knit in Noro Silk Garden Sock by Deborah Cooke

You can just see them in the black border. (I like how they nestle in there and are a bit subtle.) You knit four rows of garter stitch before casting off, and I added the beads in the third row. They’re 2/0 beads and I used the crochet hook method, putting a bead on every fifth stitch. It took about 100 beads, which was just about all I had left of those. (I used them before, on another Noro shawl and these were left over. Hmm. Can I find it? This one! Noro spider web fichu. Ha!)

What do you think?

Papillon

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Things have been quiet here on the blog for a bit, and I apologize for that. I was slammed at work in April and didn’t have much time for crafting, then had a few fails. 😦 That’s always disheartening. I may circle back to them and see what can be salvaged, then share the results with you. In the meantime, here’s one that is having a happier adventure the second time around.

Papillon is a beautiful and clever shawl pattern using short rows and designed by Marin Melchior. (That’s a Ravelry link.) It’s knit in fingering weight with two colours, one solid and one not.

Remember this Koigu KPPPM that I first used in the body of my teal Navelli?

Navelli by Caitlin Hunter knit in Koigu KPPPM and Shibui Knits Sock by Deborah Cooke

I frogged it back because of the pooling. This yarn has longer sections of each colour (at least for Koigu) so I thought it might work for Papillon.

Papillon shawl knit in Koigu KPPPM by Deborah Cooke

It didn’t really work in this pattern either. :-/

I was determined to use my stash yarn, though, and dug in again. This time, I chose some Noro Silk Garden Sock, which has longer colour changes, and for contrast, a very black alpaca yarn from a local farm. There’s a tiny shimmer of blue spun in with the black alpaca yarn, too. Here’s the beginning:

Papillon shawl knit in Noro Silk Garden Sock by Deborah Cooke

I’m much happier with this version! This is knitting up much more thickly even on the same needles, but since I’m not sure how much black there is (that label’s long gone) I’m sticking to the 3.5mm needles and hoping I have enough black to finish.

Finally, a success!

I have some sweaters breaking free of Sleeve Island and will share one with you next time.