Hedgerow Shawl MKAL - Finished!

Well, those three weeks (from cast on) sure went quickly.  I did take pictures after each clue, but just never got around to posting/blogging about them.  So, here is Clue 2.

And Clue 3.

It has been a little while since I did a mystery knit along, or anything with lace.  This project is the first lace shawl of the year, not that there is a ton of lace.  But it was a relaxing knit, and it used up some stash.  It is a shawl shape that I like, even if blocking can be a little bit of a challenge.

With the world being all browns, and white when it snowed, I was really craving some color.  The yarn is very soft, and it was nice to work with.  The shawl has nice drape.

Pattern:  Hedgerow Shawl MKAL by Helen Stewart

Yarn:  Round Table Yarns Camelot

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Hedgerow Shawl MKAL - Clue 1 Done!

A couple of weeks ago, I was poking around some of the yarn stash in my piano room (don’t ask) and came across three skeins that I had gotten in a club back in 2020.  The club was the Guigemar Yarn Club, and the yarn was Camelot (80% merino/10% cashmere/10% nylon), fingering weight (I have an insane amount of fingering weight yarn in my stash) from Round Table Yarns.  They were each in their own canvas bag, hanging on the door handle, and when I pulled them out and held them together I thought that they would make a nice shawl.

And wasn’t it convenient that Helen Stewart of Curious Handmade was doing a mystery knitalong of a three-color shawl.  I haven’t done a mystery knitalong in a while, although I will often buy the patterns and even a kit (usually from Miss Babs, because I have a hard time resisting those kits!), and then wait until all the clues come out and then maybe cast on at some undetermined point in the future.  Please don’t ask me how many kits I have in my stash.  Those are all project embryos waiting to be born.

Anyway, I felt like knitting something with some brighter colors, and as addictive as colorwork knitting can be, sometimes your brain just isn’t up for it but you still feel like knitting, so I cast on when the first clue came out and actually finished the first clue the day the second clue came out.  The pattern called for a US 6 (4.0 mm) needle, but looking back at the other shawls from her that I’ve knit I typically go down a needle size, so I used a US 5 (3.75 mm) needle.

Pattern:  Hedgerow Shawl MKAL

Yarn:  Round Table Yarns Camelot

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)