Winter Solstice

Yes, there is a bona fide finished project right there!

Project Details:

Pattern: Longest Night Shawl, by Lori Law

Yarn: Fyberspates Gleem Lace, 2 skeins, 1748 yards total. I used all but 14 grams. This was a gift several years ago from Jennifer AKA Major Knitter.

Needles: 2.75 mm

Started/Finished: 3/16/17-2/16/20

For: Me

Modifications: None

What I Learned: Patience. This is a huge shawl. None of it is difficult in the sense of technically challenging. There are several rows that have cables, but once I got it out of my head that cables in laceweight yarn aren’t any different than cables in heavy yarn, it was all good. I learned to fix some mistakes without tinking back multiple rows.

Pattern/Yarn rating: ***** for the pattern. It was formatted nicely, and no errors. **** for the yarn. It is gorgeous, but there is just enough variation in the color from one skein to the next to annoy me a tiny bit. In the finished shawl it almost looks a bit like a gradient. In over 1700 yards of yarn, there wasn’t a single knot or whacky bit that had to be spliced out.

I predict that I will wear this one a lot. I love the color, and I really like that it is such a generously sized shawl.

And now I get to pick one of the other four lace shawls I have in progress to focus on! I already have one chosen, since it will be a gift that has a “needs to be done” date.

Stay tuned!

Author: Lorette

My name is Lorette. I learned to knit in 1999, and took up spinning in 2009. I'm a physician specializing in internal medicine, and live in the Pacific Northwest. Enjoy my blog! View all posts by Lorette

12 thoughts on “Winter Solstice”

I didn’t realize how generously sized from the last post. Very nice! I’m sure you will wear it a lot because you can wear it totally expanded or scrunched up, depending on occasion. Love it!