Inspiration
Spring Fling: Four Shawls
Monday coffee break! Come dream and scheme with us.
Here’s a lightning round of four patterns that really get us smiling.
The unifying theme here? For one thing, they’re all shawls, that canvas onto which designers put their signatures.
Another thing: texture! We’re loving the look of these gorgeous wraps. Clean, clever, colorful, modern. We’ve noted yarns from the MDK Shop that would be great pairings.
Nonomi Shawlette by Nahoko Masubuchi
A sweet snack, with worsted weight yarn making this a lush little project.
Yarn ideas from the Shop: MDK Atlas, Jill Draper Mohonk, Rowan Handknit Cotton, Julie Asselin Hektos.
Cold Spring by Laura Aylor
Oh, the simplicity of this little shawl. There are few things as lovely as knits and purls getting along so well.
Yarn ideas from the Shop: MDK Atlas, Nua Sport, Neighborhood Fiber Co. Organic Studio DK.
Wave of Change Shawl by Denise Bayron
A perfect thing, the sort of wrap you will wear forever. Or keep knitting and it becomes a blanket. Glorious when paired with a beautiful solid yarn.
Yarn ideas from the Shop: MDK Atlas, Nua Sport, Neighborhood Fiber Co. Organic Studio DK, and Julie Asselin Hektos for the shawl. And Julie Asselin Douillet for the blanket.
SSP by Isabell Kraemer
Oh, there she goes again, giving us a new set of textures and colors to play with. If you’ve never made an Isabell Kraemer shawl, this is a fine place to start.
Yarn idea from the Shop: our beloved favorite, Rowan Felted Tweed.
For A bright palette select 3 balls of Aluminum, 2 Pink Bliss, 1 Maritime, 1 Clay, 2 French Mustard.
In the MDK Shop
For an antiqued palette select 3 Balls of Ancient, 2 Iolite, 1 Seasalter, 1 Stone, 2 Treacle.
Please note! Following Isabell’s suggestion on the pattern page, our Felted Tweed palette swaps out C5 (Color 5) for more of C1 (Color 1). That is, use C1 in the pattern where C5 is specified.
Here endeth our Monday Spring Fling. Which design catches your eye? We’re having a hard time deciding.
Funnily enough I cast on SSP today! Loving it in Tynd Woolfolk. (After recently knitting/mediating 5 Cecelia Campochiaro’s shawls it’s a little challenging to concentrate!!!!) I found knitting a little swatch to get a grasp on the pattern was really helpful.
That sounds deluxe! MDK’s palette of Tynd is calling to me … https://www.moderndailyknitting.com/shop/tynd/ …
I’m just finishing a multicolored shawl (Yara by Natasja Hornsby – awesome in Jill Draper) so SSP may be next on my list. And Wave of Change looks like a perfect Knitflix project. I’d be tempted to do it in Freia yarn bombs, but I’m tempted to do EVERYTHING in Freia….
I love the shawlette!! I feel Xmas presents for my Chicago and Iowa City nieces. Could be my first Atlas project too! Love the bobbles.
Missing Natasja Hornby‘s Corbis shawl mentioned. Basket weave pattern, twisted stitches, bobbles….
Great suggestions, thanks so much!
Oh they are all gorgeous! So many shawls – so little time!
Love alll of these. I am especially a loyal fan of Isabel Kraemer and her new shawl is gorgeous.
I love shawls! I love to knit them and I love to wear them. Does anyone but knitters actually wear shawls? I don’t see them out and about.
Several of my lovely coworkers (all non-knitters) wear shawls, mostly the oversized blanket style. Some of them have confessed a fear of not being able to pull off the look. Many of my coworkers tend to wear a lot of neutrals, so maybe a simpler color palette would work for them. Since I started making them, I wear them all the time, sometimes instead of a cardigan or jacket. They’re definitely a nice extra layer to have in cold weather (or offices).
Other than knitters, I see shawls worn most often as in the 4th, 6th, amd 7th photos of this post— i.e, styled as a drapey or sometimes oversized scarf— and more often among women in their 20s-40s. I’m in that age range myself, and at least half of my knitted shawls have been requested gifts for friends or my SILs who want to wear them styled like this.
I’m currently knitting a shawl called Oxidation, which is just about the perfect kind of TV knitting for me, with just enough going on that I am not bored stiff. It’s 2 skeins of the main color, 1 of contrast, in a fingering yarn. Garter stitch but with little sections of short rows in the contrast color to make stripes and colorblocks. I am going to wear the heck out of this!
That’s my issue also since I don’t wear shawls. Some of those, however, look as if they could be expanded to be lovely afghans or baby blankets.
Oh the Isabell Kraemer in your bright palette! What a pretty thing! Bright for the dull days.
OMG was this posted before today’s Wordle was released?! Strongly sensing a theme today!
Totally coincidental. The knitterly force is strong.
I started SSP by Isabell Kraemer 4 weeks ago.
Just love it so far! Maybe half way through the first section? US 3 needles and I am a slow knitter. Going to be a few months before I am done but that’s ok! Gorgeous pattern!
I have missed the annual knitting brackets, but I imagine it was a lot of work. Yet….
Silly question, but do you think I could do the blanket version of Wave of Change in Organic Studio Chunky? I just love the colors of the chunky yarn so much.
These all look fabulous. SSP reminds me of the Nightshift that I made last year. Just cast on la Playa. Using Sparrow. Thank you for ideas for my next Shawl. I love to knit them!