The First Clue

This post is for the first clue of the Lunar Phase Mystery Knitalong by Larissa Brown, if you don't want spoilers you might want to leave this post for later.

And for those of you who don't mind unveiling the surprise with me, keep scrolling!

First off, I am so excited to put these fabulous yarns together, and the beginning of the knitalong is the biggest culprit of my excitement.  This dark and moody black with brown hues and small deep blue flecks contrasting the vibrant yellow felt like the radiant stars in the night sky immediately.  

Not only are the colours exciting, but the fabulous Larissa Brown made me realize something while knitting this up.  This single-ply fingering weight yarn is so much more scrumptious knit up on size 5 needles rather than the size 2 needles I've previously tried to use on yarns like this.  I'm a glutton for a tight knit, so I always aim for smaller needles.  Little did I know that the drape and stretch (while still maintaining opaqueness and form) is everything that this yarn deserves and my heart yearned for.  I'm sure the countless people I had scrunch this were a little perturbed, but I think their lives are all the better for this magnificent scrunchy experience.  

By the moon colour (the pearly white blue) I decided I want this to be the biggest shawl ever.  Technically the gauge of the pattern and my gauge swatch tell me that it's not going to be colossally big, but the colours are so nice together that I just want to be able to wrap my whole body in them.  Which is perfectly normal, I'm sure of it.

Then came my favourite yarn, the Rocky Mountain inspired yarn that you can see peaking out between the moon colour stripes.  When this colour was introduced I decided that I might have to start my life over after making this shawl.  Go live in the mountains and completely structure my life around these colours and the way they make me feel.  I'm in my early 20's so I don't think that's totally off the table!  Not that you couldn't completely restructure your life around a shawl when you're older, I just feel like that's a thing that I can get away with at this age.  

As for the pattern itself, I've loved how the increases formed faint lines that ray out across the work, and the contrast of colour and texture that the purl stitches form against the knit.  

I've particularly loved the little holes the pattern has you do.  It adds a lot of fun visual texture and makes the pattern look a bit more complex without it being too difficult (seriously, this has been a fantastic pattern to follow).

The night sky colour set with the Transition colour (the Rocky Mountain one) has been my favourite by far.  They are colours that I would describe as humming together and I now want a full body suit in these colours.  Okay maybe just a sweater, but nonetheless.

By now 3/4 clues are out, and yes I know I'm a little behind.  With my spring cleaning I've been doing little else, as is apparent from my off schedule blog post, but I can assure you that this magical shawl I'm making is going to keep going and you will absolutely be seeing more.

Until then though,

Stay sweet, stay crafty, and stay tuned.