Odyssey Shawl

Yesterday we hiked again to one of my most favourite places in the world - Lake Pchelina and I took advantage of the beautiful scenery to photo shoot my latest shawl - Odyssey by Joji Locatelli.
Initially the shawl was meant as a present, but Gaby liked it so much that I decided that it would be wiser to gift it to someone who really wanted it, so it is for her.

As my yarn is different from what the pattern calls for and I wanted to use up all of the 200 g I dyed for the shawl, I didn't follow strictly the pattern and made my straps of garter stitch in between the lace straps wider. And I'm so proud that I was able to calculate it so that finishing the last picot bind off row I had zero yarn left!

Pattern: Odyssey Shawl by Joji Locatelly (free on Ravelry)
Yarn: Italian Bobbin 100% merino, hand dyed, in two threads, 650 m / 100g, total 200 g
Needle: 4 mm
Time to knit: 10 days

Hipster Shawl

Last week I finished my Hipster shawl and I've been wearing it from the moment I put the fringes on it. How did I live without it before?! I'm so happy how it turned out, I love the color and the yarn.

I had 200 g Italian bobbin tweed, 75% virgin wool 25% poly-amide, very thin - 800 m / 100 g, which I overdyed in warm chocolate color. I sampled knitting the yarn with two and three threads held together and liked better the two-thread sample, knitted on 3.75 mm needles. As this made my yarn and needles much smaller than what the pattern calls for, I continued knitting and serendipitously had enough yarn for one full repeat of the pattern. And again serendipitously with this additional repeat my shawl turned exactly the size it is supposed to be according to the pattern. One more reason to love this shawl!

Pattern: Hipster Shawl by Joji Locatelli
Yarn: Toscofilati, Erica 4, 85% virgin wool 25% polyamide, 200 g
Needle: 3.75 mm (US 5)
Time to knit: 18 days