My Inclinations Shawl, a stash buster yarn project for Make Nine 2023, is finished (and not without a few froggings)!
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| Make Nine 2023 finish: yarn stash buster project, the Inclinations Shawl. |
This is my second Make Nine 2023 finish, and fulfills the stash buster prompt. You can't go wrong with a stash buster project that also has stripes. It's always an exciting knit!
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| Inclinations Shawl, a stash buster project. 68" x 42.5" |
2-row stripes with variegated yarns
At first, I thought I'd use a monochromatic blue yarn [Classic Shades from Universal Yarn] and interject brighter, more colorful stripes using Poems [Universal Yarn]. However, the more the variegated colors of Poems interacted, I became fond of the colorplay effects achieved within the single skeins.
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| Starting the Inclinations Shawl. |
So, after the Classic Shades skein was used up, I busted through various skeins of Poems and let the colors in this variegated yarn play on its own terms across the rows. This is how the center glow was achieved with the lighter colored skeins of Poems.
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| Inclinations Shawl showing the lighter colors in the center. |
I busted through 10 skeins of yarn from the stash. A nice dent, I'd say.
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| Over 10 skeins of yarn used. |
When the remainder of the 10th skein of Poems was all brown and all the same value, I stopped knitting. By this time, I had 174 stitches on the needle and the shawl was well over 75" on the diagonal side. The last color change was a stripe of bright magenta... and ending on a bright note was my signal to wrap it up.
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| Striped, I-cord bind-off. |
In the pattern, there were several options for a bind-off. I chose the 2-yarn, striped I-cord version. The bind-off took quie a long time, but well worth the investment.
Project Stats
Here are the specs for my Inclinations Shawl:
- Over 10 skeins of worsted weight yarn: 9+ skeins of Poems [100% wool, 109 yd, 50g]; and 1 skein of Classic Shades [30% wool, 70% dralon, 197 yd, 100 g]
- finished size: 68" x 42.5" with a hypotenuse of 78" (unblocked)
- size 5 needle
- 174 stitches at the bind-off
- 262 rows.
Frogging did occur!
I had a difficult time figuring out how to fix errors with the half Fisherman's rib stitch. The floats that are created when you knit the stitch below made it confusing for me. I tried a couple of times if I caught an error in one row beneath, but going down several rows was chaos.
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| Trying to fix mistakes several rows below was not successful. |
Frogging did occur. Twice. With about 3 - 4 inches of knitting each time—at the wider side of the shawl. Not fun, but a cleaner result once it was re-knit. Luckily, the "stickiness" of the wool yarn helped preserve the live stitches so it was easier to get them back on the needle after ripping out the rows.
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| Frogged! |
Make Nine 2023 progress: 2 of 9
This is my second Make Nine project for this year. It was finished 3 days prior to the start of The 100 Day Project in which I am participating.
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| Make Nine 2023 worksheet: stash buster prompt fulfilled. |
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| My Inclinations Shawl. |
I've used this shawl several times already. It's warm yet light weight, squishy and snuggly. I love the color changes and I'm happy to have created something new with stash and leftover yarns.
