Garden Variety MKAL - Finished!

I finished this up this past Monday, although I didn’t block it until Tuesday.  It was a lot of fun.  I enjoyed the construction and the color work and the pattern was extremely well-written.  It is huge, about two feet wide and eight feet long.

Pattern:  Garden Variety MKAL by Lisa K. Ross

Yarn:  Miss Babs Yummy 2-Ply

Needles:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Garden Variety MKAL - Clue 3 Done

After spending last weekend finishing up Arabian Nights, I turned my attention back to this shawl and finished up Clue 3 yesterday morning.  The design is a lot of fun, and very inspiring and I like the fact that it kind of looks like a dress.  The fourth clue is out and it uses the first three colors.  I may add some rows in to use up my leftovers, depending on how much of my main color I have.  I like the asymmetry of the design, and I love the colors.

Pattern:  Garden Variety MKAL by Lisa K. Ross
Yarn:  Miss Babs Yummy 2-ply and Yummy 2-ply Toes
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Garden Variety MKAL - Clue 2 Done

The second clue on this shawl was a fair bit of knitting.  If I were running the show I probably would have allowed two weeks for this one, just so folks didn’t feel rushed.  I did find some of the stitches not hard, but a bit tedious, so I took my time.  I did use a crochet hook on the second and third loops of the Dahlia stitch.  Now I have to do more or less the same thing on the other side.  There is still a clue left, and this shawl is not big enough to be a shawl, yet, and there are three colors that we haven’t used since clue 1, so there is more to come.

Pattern:  Garden Variety MKAL by Lisa K. Ross

Yarn:  Miss Babs Yummy 2-ply and Yummy 2-ply Toes

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Garden Variety MKAL - Clue 1 Done

Last month Lisa Ross (Paper Daisy Creations) announced a mystery knit along and I was captivated by the kits that Miss Babs put together.  This is the Morning Glories kit, and the picture above shows the order that the mini-skeins were packed, but they are not the order that I am using them in.  I used the monochrome filter on my iPad to order them from lightest to darkest, which was a technique recommended in the pattern notes.

Here is the first clue knit up.  The second clue comes out on Tuesday.

Pattern:  Garden Variety MKAL by Lisa K. Ross
Yarn:  Miss Babs Yummy 2-ply and Yummy 2-ply Toes
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)