Et voilà!

It’s finished! Well, it’s been finished for awhile, I’ve just been too busy to get it photographed.

You can tell by the socks and Birkies that it’s not that hot here. We’ve had a few warm days, up into the low 90’s, but that’s it. Yes, I’m extremely grateful that the awful weather around the world seems to have bypassed us for now. Today it was in the mid-70’s, dry, and with a light little breeze.

Now, on to the SHAWL!

Project Details:

• Pattern: Cathedral Stole, by Birgit Freyer
• Yarn: Tajik Kid Mohair. This was marketed and sold by Peace Fleece. It is handspun mohair made by a woman in Afghanistan. There is a cooperative of women spinners there and in Tajikistan that spin and sell their yarn. You can buy similar yarn by them now at Port Fiber, though she doesn’t have it in this put-up. The color is a deep, glowing scarlet. I used about 240 grams of this, which is called lace weight, but i’st more of a light fingering. It reminds me of shiny Ruby Slippers.
• Started: Embarrassingly, February 2016. 🙄
• Finished: June 12, 2023
• Needle: 3.25 mm
• What I Learned: Eventually, all projects can be finished. I have no idea why this took so long, since it is lovely yarn, and a lovely pattern. The pattern is knit entirely from charts, and I added a bit of length to each end of the stole to use up more yarn. I also love big shawls that I can wrap up in.
• Yarn/Pattern rating: *****/*****. The pattern is probably not for beginners, though it doesn’t have any exotic techniques. It’s just…brief. You get a few terse paragraphs of instructions (short paragraphs!), and the charts. The yarn is gorgeous, though as handspun, there was an occasional bit of unevenness, and the odd splice/knot. I wish I’d bought more of this when it was available.

Here is a photo of the woman that spun this particular yarn. Her name is Maliknoz, her bio is here.

Here is one more photo:

I am beyond happy with this one. I also have some newly finished socks to show you, and a couple of new projects, but I’ll save that for another day.