I decided to combine some of the fibre from the Peter Pan and Dumbo boxes from Siobhan’s Crafts to make a knitted shawl for my Mother :o) I saw the pattern on Ravelry and it just felt like a perfect match for the fibre sitting in my cupboard! With her Birthday fast approaching I set about to spinning and knitting it at high speed :o)
The Peter Pan box had these 4 lovely mini braids. All merino blend, some with sparkles :o) They spun up beautifully into a pretty consistent DK weight yarn :o)
The finished four yarns back in their fibre bands so I didn’t muddle them all up ;o)
In the Dumbo box was this wonderfully soft braid with 50% merino, 30% baby alpaca and 20% mulberry silk, so lovely! I split the fibre in half lengthways to maintain the gradual gradient along it when I spun my singles.
My split wasn’t weighed so I wasn’t too surprised by needing some Andean plying at the end, but this was the most I’ve ever had to wrap around my hand! :o)
All five colours balled up and ready to start some knitting :o)
The pattern is Swoop by Rosemary Hill. Obviously I’m not capable of actually following a pattern, as I had the wrong number of colours, and not quite enough yarn, but I certainly followed it to start with ;o) I just had to change it at the end a bit :o)
The only photo I took of the finished shawl was on a bright red towel whilst it was blocking! Thankfully Angela sent me some more photos :o)
The finished shawl was wonderfully soft thanks to the alpaca and silk, and the slight sparkle in the coloured sections really catches the light :o) I managed to finish it with just hours to spare, it might have still been a little damp from blocking when I wrapped it up! ;o)