This one was a brithday surprise for a friend :)
An asymetrical triangle shawl in light blue and petrol-cerise Drops Karisma. This 100% wool yarn gives a warm, yet airy fabric when knitted with bigger needles.
I used 5mm needles. The suggested needle size for this yarn is 3,5 - 4mm.

I designed this shawl for the birthday girl but I also wrote down a pattern as I went along. So this shawl is a prototype as well.
The main pattern is garter stich knit in the bias, but it gets very interesting through stripes, eyelet rows as well as a lace edge and a picot bind off.
For the final pattern I will knit another sample including only a few changes.

I named this shawl Sky because the design and the colors reminded me of the clouds in the sky. Just how the dark cloudes make room for the light blue sky to spread itself as the shawl widens to brighten your day.

I had the shawl on my dressform at home for a while when it was ready. And I found that somehow the shawl became even prettier every day that went by and I looked at it. I can’t say why. But when I told him, my man said he was thinking the same thing. This gave me a very strong and confident feeling about this design.