FO- Damson

When I travel, I usually bring along a pair of socks to knit. They are compact and only take up a skein or two of yarn, which makes them a pretty perfect travel item. I bucked the trend this time and made the Damson shawl instead. It was made of sock yarn (bonus!) and it was pretty simple lace.



It blocked out a lot bigger than I thought it would- I thought it would be more scarf than shawl.



I knit it on #6 needles, so it's not terrible warm, but I've been wearing it almost constantly since I've finished it.



(yes, we got snow. lots and lots of snow.)



I want to re-block the scalloped edges (I ran out of pins, but I could have just used a length of yarn as a blocking wire to pull them out). I am in love with the yarn- it's Malabrigo sock in Botticelli Red. It's perfect- one of the sexiest vampy reds I've ever seen. I didn't even consider taking the time for a gauge swatch and ran out of yarn on the second-to-last row because of it. A second skein was rushed to my door and it was quickly made use of, which means that now I have an additional 400 yards of Botticelli Red to deal with. Whatever will I do?



A matching set perhaps?

Damson

I picked out the Damson pattern for my travels last month. It's mostly garter and stockinette stitch with some yarn overs thrown in. Easy to memorize and fairly mindless. I pulled out a skein of Malabrigo sock that has been in my stash for a while, waiting for the right project to call home:



It's in Botticelli Red. I actually thought it would be used for a pair of sexy vampy lacy socks, but the Damson called to it instead.

I cranked through this shawl and had it pretty much done within the week. It even made the trek with me to the top of Pilatus:



And then crap crapity crap crap crap. I ran out of yarn on the last row. I considered doing the scallop edging and bind-off in a contrasting color, but that just screams "I've run out of yarn". I've decided to break my yarn diet (as this is truly an emergency) and buy another skein of Malabrigo. I know that the dye lots may not match up, but I'm hoping it would be similar enough to not be a huge difference.

I guess that my little personal indulgence of not swatching for scarves and shawls and other non-fitted things has just come back to bite me in the ass.