Pan’s Shawl - Finished!

I focused on my Pan’s Shawl while my left eye healed from my cataract surgery and I waited for the surgery on my right eye.  That surgery was this morning, and so far things are looking pretty good, even though my right eye is still very dilated.

I actually finished up this shawl back on December 14, and it dried very quickly when I blocked it (overnight, in fact - winter!).

I wasn’t one hundred percent sold on the color for the border, even while I was knitting it, but I think it works.  It is bright and dramatic, and fun.  It took me a few days to get a beauty shot, due to the fact that we had some snow last weekend and it hung around for a few days.

Pattern:  Improvised Boomerang Shawl

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep Kiri 

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Pan’s Shawl - Making Progress!

One of the projects that I can easily work on while going through the cataract surgery process is my Pan’s Shawl.  I am getting to the point where I need to start thinking about the color to use for the knit-on edging.  I have a choice of three colors that were dyed up as part of this Pandemic 2020 set.  There was also a blue skein, but that one has already been used as part of my Joy to The World - Cindy Shawl.

Right now I am leaning towards the yellow skein, which is conveniently already caked up, as that will provide a nice color pop, even though the yellow is not a dominant color in the multi-colored skein that I used for the body.  I love these boomerang shawls.  They are a great way to use up single skeins, or remnants of mini-skeins, they are easy to wear, and you can always tie the ends behind your back and turn them into a shrug if you’re washing dishes or cooking and don’t want your shawl getting in the way.  You can also just wrap them around your neck like a scarf.  So versatile!

Pattern:  Improvised Boomerang Shawl

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep Kiri

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Pan’s Shawl: Cast On!

Last week I decided that I needed a mindless knit to work on while watching football games so I cast on one of my one-skein garter stitch boomerang shawls using this wild skein of yarn.  I’ve had this skein caked up for a while now, with the intention of using it in one of my one-skein garter stitch boomerang shawls.  It was purchased back in 2020 during the Coved pandemic craziness by Laura of the Unique Sheep.  She made a set of colors, this multicolor one, plus solid colors that go with it.  The colorway name is, imaginatively enough, Pandemic 2020.  In picking the name for the project I went back to the origin of the word, the god Pan.  There is a dark red solid skein in the set that I will probably use as the border.

Pattern:  Improvised (garter stitch boomerang)

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep Kiri

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)