Miss Grace . .

I should have a contest . . how many blog posts can I make about the Miss Grace shawl project?

A few weeks ago when I first discovered the Miss Grace Shawl and couldn’t stop thinking about it (and writing blog posts about it!), a reader wrote:

I don’t usually comment on your knitting projects, but it is quite obvious why this one “grabbed” you. It is GORGEOUS! I may have to make this one, too.

So very true . . this pattern will not let go! I haven’t stopped thinking about it. I couldn’t get a good grasp on how the colors were going to be knitted or how they would work together. There are projects with colors so different . . like, gray, red and navy, and there are projects with more blendy colors. 

Once I looked at the pattern, I told Vince “I’ve been knitting for a long time and this pattern makes zero sense to me!” Then I watched Very Pink’s video and it made perfect sense. And, it seemed quite easy.

So, I started with the yarn I had chosen and I worked through the first half form. It really looked to me like those colors should have worked, but they didn’t.

Pattern is fun and easy but my yarn was way too blendy. Knowing how it was all going to work, it was back to the drawing board . . so to speak. It was more like digging through yarn tubs again.

This grouping is two of the colors I used in the beginning. I added the two greens. The green on the left is another Bugga yarn but the green on the right is a Dream in Color Smooshy with Cashmere. 

I like the green on the right better but here’s another problem.

The DIC Smooshy is classified as fingering weight yarn. The Bugga is classified as sport weight but, the one on the left – 400 yards = 4 oz. The one on the right – 412 yards = 4 oz. Why aren’t they both the same class – fingering or sport? Makes no sense but the bottom line is . . they are the same, no matter how they’re classified so I can interchange them.

Here are the other possibilities.

The pink may even be too blendy with the multi colored yarn and if it is, I’m going to substitute black for the solid pink.

These are all fingering weight . . really! I’m going to make the sport weight first and see how big it ends up and then I may or may not make adjustments to the pattern to get it to be the size I want if using fingering weight. But . . that won’t happen for a while. Let’s get through the first shawl first.

I wish I’d kept up with how many skeins of yarn I’ve wound trying to come up with the perfect yarn for this project . . it’s been a lot!!