I have 300 g of lovely, soft, brown Alpaca which I bought in Gothenburg last summer. My plan was to make a warm winter shawl out of it. It’s quite a thick yarn – 100 m per 100 g – so the size of the needles will be somewhere between 7-10 mm. Quite the change from the thin lace-yarn I’ve been working with for the past few months.
Now to the problem…. what exactly am I going to knit? I had originally planned a nice, cabled shawl. I even had a design in mind, with a cabled edge and a wide cable running up the center. But I did some swatching, and it just didn’t turn out the way I had planned. Also, it became rather thick and unwieldy.
So now I’m thinking about something lacy, yet heavy. But I’m not really sure what. Must get some more ideas before I start. On the other hand, it’s getting chillier every day, and I could sure use a warm shawl as I go to the bus stop 3 times a day. Or even just to curl up in the sofa. The saving grace here is that since the yarn is so thick, I imagine it will be a quick knit once I actually start.
