This shawl was designed by Hanna Maciejewska and is called Stay Home and Knit. It was set up as a Knit Along project on her blog and with so many of us being ask or told to stay home during the Covid 19 outbreak she posted it as a free project on Ravelry. Part of my personal goal during this time was to attack my UFO project bin and finish some projects. In my bin was the Dreaded “pizza” shawl. A project I started last spring and quickly saw now matter how beautiful my homespun yarn was I was always going to see a slice of cheese pizza. And so I ripped (frogged) it out and went on the hunt for a new project. The yarn is made from some of my first dyed projects; 3, 2oz braided of Chevoit roving dye with Kool-Aid and food coloring. I called the color way Candy Corn Candy Cane after a cool candy cane my hubby found at Halloween. Two braids were spun on my Spinolution Pollywog in a fingering weight and the third was spun on my Ashford Traveller in a lace weight. This Shawl done with both yarn weights in sections on garter, stockinette, bobble and open lace. I tweaked the pattern a bit to give the sections more dimension by not always using both yarns together. It worked up to be a bright and fun for a springtime Easter shawl and do justice to the yarn, finally.
