Last night I was listlessly pulling at the shawl I knit for my friend Eileen, and the darn thing started coming apart in my hands! Now is that God giving me a little prompt or what? And frogging it was not the nightmare I was afraid it would be, once I got started.
Everybody has their own system, but here's how I "freshen" used yarn. Wind it on to a long (24" or so) piece of cardboard, tie it off with figure-8 knots in 4 places, soak skein in Eucalan for 20 minutes, squeeze out water, wrap yarn in a towel, sit on it until it's as dry as I can get it, then hang the skein on a plastic coat hanger in my closet with a big bottle of something weighting it. This morning I woke up to this:
Oh, yeah.
Eucalan has restored my motivation.
Mojo-licious: Rich, gorgeous Helen's Lace
These aren't my colors, but Eileen is a green-eyed blond and I think they will look smashing on her. As for patterns . . .I still don't know what I'm going to do with this 1,200 yards of buttery-smooth loveliness. Any ideas? I'm afraid the variegated colorway would not show off a super lacy pattern, so I'm looking for a shawl designed for multi-colored yarn. I think I will be perusing Barbara Walker's 2nd stitch pattern treasury tonight . . .
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I just made a Kiri Shawl out of super-variegated Koigu using the free download pattern from this blog http://www.alltangledup.com/ and it came out great. Id tried the same yarn on Evelyn Clark'se Swallowtail shawl pattern from Intrweave and it looked like barf because too many things were happening at once. The yarnovers! The color changes! Aagh, my eyes! But Kiri has more substance so can stand up to the variegations. I used about 525 yards of Koigu on size 4s but would have liked it better if I'd used one more hank (about 700 yards total.)
I'm getting ready to knit the Mystery Stole 3 out of dark green Malabrigo. Yours looks fantastic and I like your idea of using larger beads for the body. I agree, with all that work, they need to show up!
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