Jazzberries and Lemon Drops - Finished!

We took the day off from work yesterday and went to Charlottesville for the Match Ceremony at the UVA Medical School.  Amy was learning where she is going to go for her residency (UCLA).  I brought this along to work on during the car ride.  I finished it up on the drive home.

Pattern:  Over the Moon by Vicki Mikulak
Yarn:  Luxe in Jaded Jazzberry
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Jazzberries and Lemon Drops - Border Halfway Done (Almost)

It has been over six months since I last worked on this shawl.  I've had the border yarn for a while, but hadn't figured out which border I wanted to use.  I finally pulled it back out last week and wound the border yarn and did some weighing and some figuring and finally figured out that I had enough yarn to do this border, which is the same one that I used on the Tart Berries and Honey Shawl.  I am not quite at the half way point and working with the first skein.

The reason that I pulled it back out was that I wanted a project to take to the Unique Sheep Retreat, which was this past weekend that used their yarn and would be easy to work on while visiting.

Pattern:  Over the Moon by Vicki Mikulak
Yarn:  Luxe in Jaded Jazzberry
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Jazzberries

I finished up the left over Jaded Jazzberry yarn, all I need now is the Lemon Drops.  It is all scrunched up because I didn't feel like putting it on a longer cable just to take a quick photo, but you can get a sense of the colors.  They are so rich and lush.  Now I'll set this one aside and get back to working on one of my other projects that I have been neglecting.  I will confess that I really don't like having multiple projects going at the same time anymore.  Picking up, putting down, picking back up, figuring out where you were and what you were doing just seem like so much extra effort these days.  I like to be able to sit down and just focus on one thing until I finish it.  The only time I don't mind putting something down for a while is if I'm stuck and not sure how I want to proceed.

Pattern:  Over the Moon by Vicki Mikulak
Yarn:  Luxe in Jaded Jazzberry
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Jazzberries and Lemon Drops

I finished up my Oliver Twist test knit yesterday and started really working on my leftovers shawl, which I have decided to call Jazzberries and Lemon Drops.  I ordered a 100 gram set of Luxe in the Lemon Drops gradiance for the knit on border.  These leftover shawls are a lot of fun to work.  They really showcase the colors of the gradiance set and allow me to play with color combinations when I pick the color for the knit on border.  I have a couple of borders that I like to use for these shawls borrowed from other patterns.  The basic shawl pattern itself is from Over the Moon by Vicki Mikulak.  This is the fourth one of these that I have done.  I have used up all of skein 1 and am almost done with the leftovers of skein 2.  This is a really gorgeous colorway and it knits up into such a beautiful shawl.

Test knitting was a lot of fun, but it was also challenging in that I had to decide when to switch skeins.  I did a spreadsheet with stitch counts for each chart and basically tried to do about the same number of stitches in each skein, but yarn usage varies depending upon how lacy the design is, and I did some adjusting based on what was going on in the design.  I ended up with a fair bit of the first 4 skeins left over (14, 16, 14 and 10 grams) and not as much of the last two (6 and 4 grams).

Pattern:  Over the Moon by Vicki Mikulak
Yarn:  Luxe in Jaded Jazzberry
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)