Xuan Wrap - Finished!

Thanks to a focused effort, and a couple of long meetings, I finished up my Xuan Wrap this past week.  I had enough of the Hedgehog Fibres yarn to work seven Mosaic sections.  The pattern has you end after a Garter Stitch section, working six repeats total.  I wanted to use up as much of my main color as possible, and wanted a little bit of a longer shawl.  I used skeins 13-21 completely, and a little bit of skein 22 from my 2019 Unique Sheep Advent Calendar.

I did not use the last two skeins on the right, and only a little bit of the third skein from the end on the right.

Pattern:  Xuan Wrap by Ambah O’Brien

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep Rare Breed - Christmas Carol Advent Calendar & Hedgehog Fibres sock yarn in Butter

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Xuan Wrap - Four Mosaic Sections Done

This past Tuesday I had made it through three Mosaic sections and had just started a fourth.  As of yesterday I have completed four Mosaic sections and am over half-way through the fifth.  I am also getting into the green part of my yarn.  I have been using up each of my mini skeins, joining the tail of the current skein to the start of the next skein.  I am currently working with skein 19, I started with 13, so I’m on skein 7 of 12.  I will use up as much yarn as I can, extending the repeats.  The pattern has you end with a plain garter stitch section, but I may try to end with a Mosaic section.  We’ll see how the yarn usage goes.

Pattern:  Xuan Wrap by Ambah O’Brien
Yarn:  The Unique Sheep Rare Breed - Christmas Carol Advent Calendar & Hedgehog Fibres sock yarn in Butter
Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Xuan Wrap - Two Mosaic Sections Done

I’ve finished up two of the mosaic sections now.  The plain garter stitch rows between the mosaic sections make good reading knitting, otherwise I would find them way too boring.  I’m on my third mini-skein from my Advent set.  The first skein got me halfway through the first garter stitch section, and the second skein got me through the second mosaic section.  I have been using up each mini-skein and just attaching the next one.

Pattern: Xuan Wrap by Ambah O’Brien
Yarn:  The Unique Sheep Rare Breed - Christmas Carol Advent Calendar & Hedgehog Fibres sock yarn in Butter
Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Xuan Wrap - One Mosaic Section Done

I’ve finished up the first section of Mosaic knitting.  I had to rip back early on because I had messed up my colors.  I was using the written instructions, but there are reasons I use charts.  I hadn’t started with this chart because I don’t really like the colors used in the chart.  But I work better with charts, so I decided to use it. I just have to remind myself that the Main Color is represented by the red squares and the Contrast Color is represented by the yellow squares.  But my Main Color is yellow - hence a source of confusion.

Pattern:  Xuan Wrap by Ambah O’Brien

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep Rare Breed - Christmas Carol Advent Calendar & Hedgehog Fibres sock yarn in Butter

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Xuan Wrap - Cast On

Ambah O’Brien is hosting a Stashdown 2020 this year and I am participating.  My plan is to always have an Ambah O’Brien pattern on the needles.  Now that I’ve cast off Lacy Business, I’ve cast on the Xuan Wrap.  I’ve been wanting to make this for a while but haven’t been able to find the right yarn combination in my stash.  I needed a gradiance, but all of my 6 skein sets have either too much yarn or not enough.  This weekend it occurred to me that I could use half of my 2019 Unique Sheep Advent Calendar set.  I pulled it out last night and separated it into skeins 1-12 and 13-24 and then pulled out some solid colors for the Main Color.  I ended up picking skeins 13-24, and a skein of Hedgehog Fiberes in the color Butter.

Here are the contrast colors.  I’ll figure out how I want to adjust the length of the pattern as I go along.

Pattern: Xuan Wrap byAmbah O’Brien

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep Rare Breed - Christmas Carol Advent Calendar & Hedgehog Fibres sock yarn in Butter

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)