By bedtime, I realized I was kind of getting into this shawl. It's basic. It's garter stitch. It's not lace. It's the perfect stash buster.
It's brown. Brown is sort of how I feel right now.
This is some of the stash that will be busted; I have two 50 gram balls of each colour and all of it will become part of this shawl, along with all the remaining brown I can find. It's left over from the Little Arrowhead cardigan I finished earlier. All of the yarn is Sirdar's Country Style DK. I had purchased the 50 gram balls a few years ago, with the intention of making a scarf out of it. I never did.
This is not going to be a lacy shawl. It's not going to be dainty, or even pretty. It's going to be practical. It's going to be wrap-around-yourself-when-you're-feeling-chilly-or-just-yuck practical. It's simple, it's relatively mindless, seeing as it's all garter stitch. It will not have a lacy edging because I don't think it will need it.
And right now, it suits my frame of mind.
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Sometimes simplicity is its own reward.
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Blessings!
Just because it's a spur of the moment project using up odd bits of stash yarn doesn't mean it won't be beautiful.
ReplyDeleteTo be used as you describe, makes it purposeful and that has a beauty all its own. Your work is too fine, Ev, to sell it short because of its simple design and utilitarian function :)
I love the heathered colors that you'll be using. The shawl should be beautiful when it's completed.
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