Bittersweet Celebration Shawl

Hey folks, I am at home due to a snow storm here.  The snow is still coming down and there is already ~12 inches on the ground since yesterday.  Figure, I will catch up a bit on posting projects.

Up next, a Celebration Shawl using Palouse Yarn Company Cashmere Squeeze.

The Bittersweet is both the color of the yarn and how I feel about the project the yarn was purchased for.  The original purchase was for a sweater, which I did knit with the idea that superwash yarn would "grow". I did an estimate based on a scarf, I had knit using one skein of the Night Sky color and the Dark Hedges Scarf pattern. The scarf turned out really nice and gave me a growth factor which turned out to be a lie.

The pattern, I choose for the sweater was Fete Cardigan with a touch of lace and lots of cables.  To line up the skeins by color intensity, I took some photos and changed to black and white based on advice from Kate.  Here is a photo of the skeins in color intensity order.

I started with the lightest skein at the top.  I did get to back up a few times because of knitting mistakes.  And the sweater seemed a touch snug after completing as desired.  Turns out that having a bit of lace in the pattern made the sweater grow more than anticipated.

It turned out really nice. Since, I didn't have it in me to rip and try again, a friend has the sweater. My hope is that she has been enjoying it.

There was enough yarn leftover to do a shawl.  I choose to do the large version of the Celebration Shawl.  I might have been able to do one more repeat but thought that would be too big once it grew during blocking.  The shawl did grow but is still a good size for me. 

The shawl is a triangle and didn't fit in the frame nicely for a photo plus I didn't want some of the background items in the photo.

The series of projects was over a 3 year period.  I didn't learn I have some more super wash for another sweater.