In Which the Pirate Tries a New Kind of Fashion.

While my sock drawer will never truly be full (it will just expand to be two drawers, haha!) I thought perhaps I might use some of my sock yarn to knit a shawl instead. I wanted something quick, easy, and relatively simple, and chose Multnomah – a pattern that I’ve had in my mental queue for about a decade. I love the waves of feather and fan for the edging, and the idea of a nice mindless garter stitch centre of the shawl was appealing.

I finished it in a week, using about 75 grams of Cascade Heritage Paints in the Olympic Forest colourway… which I’ve had in my stash for, um, a while. I bought it because it matched my eyes, and then could never decide what to do with it. I think it makes a really good Multnomah shawl! (Oh, and I dyed my hair fun colours. What better time than now?)

I would definitely knit this pattern again, but I’d do it a little differently next time. For starters, this isn’t really a shawl, it’s a shawlette. So if I knit it again, I’ll make the garter section a little bigger before starting the feather and fan border… and then perhaps I’ll do more repeats of the edging as well.

As the pattern is written, when you’re knitting the edging, you still maintain the garter stitch pattern in the central triangle and the corners of the shawl. If I knit it again, I would switch that out for the knits and purls of the feather and fan pattern to keep the texture of it all the way around the border.

Pretty sure I need advice about how to wear mini-shawls.

Here’s a better view of the whole thing, which shows off the pattern and that garter stitch triangle in the centre that I don’t quite understand. Overall, I really like the result, I’m glad I knit it, and I’d totally do it again, maybe in handspun next time! Now, back to some of the more complex pieces that I’d started… like that brioche shawl I think I remember starting… ;)