I bought a cake of Rico Creative Wool Degrade at the fabric fair back in September with the idea to make this shawl - I didn't realise quite what an epic undertaking it would turn out to be! Initially I thought the yarn was laceweight, but upon getting it home I discovered that it was made up of four strands of laceweight yarn and there was no way of separating it, so I had to knit on bigger needles than planned. So it looked as if it was going to be quite big from the outset...
Then with about eight inches of the point left to knit, I ran out of yarn and had to buy another cake of it - not cheap may I say! I finally finished it this week as it has been a bit of an off and on project amongst the comissioned work. It's very nice - soft, with the colour fading from a dark grey at the top to a very pale, almost white, grey at the point. And big...very, very big!
For sale in my Etsy shop now.
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