This yarn was dyed for a ‘temperature scarf’ but this year’s summer (2015) in North Carolina has had a lot of days right around 98 degrees (U.G.H.) … I didn’t think there would be enough temperature differential to evenly distribute the 12 balls of yarn… I recently purchased the Rising Dawn shawl pattern and realized that this gradient sequence resembled sunrise (or sunset?)… Somewhat larger than the pattern specs because it’s DK weight (not fingering) … but it was easily adapted by adding a couple more rows of the garter stitch just before the picot bind off.

I used a ‘home made’ extra-extra long circular out of shortened commercial bamboo needles joined with nylon weed-whacker filament… tutorial somewhere on the internet. You can see one end in the 2nd picture. I’ve also made them with dowels but the points are never quite right… the bamboo is a good compromise… now if I could only find the right glue for the ‘join’. Teflon tape (mentioned in the tutorial) is still the best option - but it eventually comes off.

re: temperature range determination(s).
North Carolina is warmer and has somewhat wider range of temperatures than Seattle (where the pattern writer is from).

Yarn acquired from Tuesday Morning to dye… now what colors and how many??? Decisions, decisions.