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)

Bioluminescent Marine Life - Finished!

As I approached the end of the last skein I attached the full sized skein that came with the set, finishing out the row and picking up stitches along the edge for the knit on edging.  I used my go-to lace edging.  I finished this up almost two weeks ago, back on July 24.  I wore it to work last week, it is generously sized, the points almost reach the ground when I’m wearing it (I’m 5 ft 4 in tall).

Pattern:  Improvised - Boomerang Garter Stitch Shawl

Yarn:  Mad Scientist Yarns Hybrid - 2021 Jekyll Advent Calendar

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Bioluminescent Marine Life - 25 Days Done!

I also finished up all 25 days of remnants on my shawl, finishing the last day on July 19.

Day 24, completed on July 17.

Day 23, completed on July 12.

Day 22, completed on July 9.

Day 21, completed on July 7.

Day 20, also completed on July 7.

Day 19, completed on June 30.

Day 18, completed on June 26.

The colors:

Day 1 - Blue Sea Squirt:  8.4 g / 0 g

Day 2 - Brain Coral:  8.6 g / 0 g

Day 3 - Electric Clam:  8.4 g / 0 g

Day 4 - Violet Sea Slug:  8.4 g / 0 g

Day 5 - Peppermint Shrimp:  7.7 g / 0 g

Day 6 - Squat Lobster:  8.3 g / 0 g

Day 7 - Mauve Stinger:  8.4 g / 0 g

Day 8 - Larval Grideye Fish:  8.6 g / 0 g

Day 9 - Bearded Scorpion Fish:  8.5 g / 0 g

Day 10 - Orange Cup Coral:  8.8 g / 0 g

Day 11 - Pharaoh Cuttlefish:  8.5 g / 0 g

Day 12 - Barred Soapfish:  8.3 g / 0 g

Day 13 - Trumpet Anemone:  8.6 g / 0 g

Day 14 - Green Torch Coral:  8.5 g / 0 g

Day 15 - Bigfin Reef Squid:  8.5 g / 0 g

Day 16 - Hairy Hermit Crab:  8.8 g / 0 g

Day 17 - Peacock Mantis Shrimp:  8.5 g / 0 g

Day 18 - Wart Comb Jelly/Sea Walnut:  8.9 g / 0 g

Day 19 - Cockatoo Squid:  8.5 g / 0 g

Day 20 - Siamese Fighting Fish:  8.4 g / 0 g

Day 21 - Slender Tailed Lantern Fish:  8.4 g / 0 g

Day 22 - Dinoflagellates:  8.7 g / 0 g

Day 23 - Polychaete Worm:  8.5 g / 0 g

Day 24 - Hammer Coral:  8.1 g / 0 g

Day 25 - Moon Jellyfish: 8.6 g / 0 g

Pattern:  Improvised - Boomerang Garter Stitch Shawl

Yarn:  Mad Scientist Yarns Hybrid - 2021 Jekyll Advent Calendar

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Bioluminescent Marine Life - 17 Days Done

I am a couple of days behind on the shawl because I typically only work on it when I am reading something - it is perfect knitting for reading - and I have been focusing more on the blanket.  Having all of the skeins caked up makes it easy to keep going on the blanket, the only limiting factor being the need to take a photo after each block.  Of course that limiting factor also applies to the shawl.

Day 16

Day 15

Day 14

Day 13

The colors so far:

Day 1 - Blue Sea Squirt:  8.4 g / 0 g

Day 2 - Brain Coral:  8.6 g / 0 g

Day 3 - Electric Clam:  8.4 g / 0 g

Day 4 - Violet Sea Slug:  8.4 g / 0 g

Day 5 - Peppermint Shrimp:  7.7 g / 0 g

Day 6 - Squat Lobster:  8.3 g / 0 g

Day 7 - Mauve Stinger:  8.4 g / 0 g

Day 8 - Larval Grideye Fish:  8.6 g / 0 g

Day 9 - Bearded Scorpion Fish:  8.5 g / 0 g

Day 10 - Orange Cup Coral:  8.8 g / 0 g

Day 11 - Pharaoh Cuttlefish:  8.5 g / 0 g

Day 12 - Barred Soapfish:  8.3 g / 0 g

Day 13 - Trumpet Anemone:  8.6 g / 0 g

Day 14 - Green Torch Coral:  8.5 g / 0 g

Day 15 - Bigfin Reef Squid:  8.5 g / 0 g

Day 16 - Hairy Hermit Crab:  8.8 g / 0 g

Day 17 - Peacock Mantis Shrimp:  8.5 g / 0 g

Pattern:  Improvised - Boomerang Garter Stitch Shawl

Yarn:  Mad Scientist Yarns Hybrid, 2021 Jekyll Advent Calendar

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

Bioluminescent Marine Life - 2 Days Done

Of course I still needed to use up that 8 grams somehow, so I cast on one of my simple boomerang garter stitch shawls.  I had forgotten how much fun they are to knit because of their simplicity.  I like the contrast between how the colors blend in the shawl vice the blanket.  Basically, after I finish a square on the blanket, I join the yarn to the tail in the shawl and knit away.  More popcorn knitting.  I will work a knit on edging with the large skein that came with the set, and with what is left do some sort of edging on the blanket.

The top photo is day 1, this photo has day 2, so you can see the change.

Pattern:  Improvised - Boomerang Garter Stitch Shawl

Yarn:  Mad Scientist Yarns Hybrid 2021 Jekyll Advent Calendar

Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)