Hello darling. She is done, and she is spectacular. Who is she? The Paris Toujours shawl, by Isabell Kraemer. I knit her in 4 days using Stranded Dyeworks Superwash Merino DK in the Anti-Valentine colorway. This shawl knit up so fast. It was a beautiful project, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The yarn was squishy and stayed fairly even through all three skeins. I did not alternate skeins, and the color variegation still stayed consistent. I used all but 13 inches of the yarn. I played yarn chicken, and I won! The finished shawl was fairly large. I then wet-blocked it using wires. This caused the shawl to get even bigger and really open up the lace. She has a wing span of 8 feet, 4 inches! I am loving everything about her.
Of course, I messed up, and of course, I am going to point it out. I got to the 10th lace row on the 2nd to last lace repeat, and I dropped a stitch. The dropped stitch was quick to unravel down 3 rows. Since it was a series of yarn-overs and knit 2 together, I wasn’t able to cleanly fix it. The error is very noticeable. Part of me wanted to rip back the rows and fix it, but the part of me that was really enjoying the project just wanted to carry on. Hopefully, it won’t be horribly noticeable to people looking. And really, if people can see it, they are too close.
I really enjoyed working with this yarn. I had tried to get the Anti-Valentine yarn for years and was able to grab it this year, for my birthday. I will say, I am not as thrilled with the color as I had been in previous years. I always saw the colorway as sort of a black-pink combo. This yarn is much more purple-pink. Mind you, it is still gorgeous. I highly recommend both this yarn and this pattern. It is unfortunate that I am not generally a big shawl person, because I could see knitting this again in many other colors. Honestly, I give this pattern a 10 out of 10!
Loves,
M
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