Osborn Fiber Studio

Here, just after the winter solstice, two days before Christmas, we come to the last pattern reveal of Migraineur. What a journey it’s been! I’m concluding with one final shawl, Fragile.

With this shawl, I’m once again chasing that idea of meltwater in diagonal channels, but this time they extend into long seams and one zig-zagging crack. This is achieved with a log-cabin-style method of modular knitting, using increases and decreases for an acute angle.

There are, let it be said, a lot of ends in this shawl. There was no way around it. However, instructions are included in the pattern for weaving them in as you go, which will feel pretty magic to not have to weave in when you’re finished.

Asymmetrical triangle shawls are so easy to wear in a variety of ways while feeling stylish. Rebekka is here showing it off over a casual outdoor outfit, but it is large enough to snuggle in, and dramatic enough to wear with a more formal get-up.

Fragile is available in two colourways and two sizes. The larger size, show above in the Arctic colourway, is an oversized shawl. The smaller size, shown below in the Volcanic colourway, is a medium-ish size that is more manageable with a parka.

The last four weeks have been a really wild journey. After three years of work that has mostly been very quiet and piecemeal, working at a rapid pace to bring all the things together into a whole at the highest quality that I can manage has been rather different. I can’t tell you how much it means to me that friends, family, readers, viewers, Wool n’ Spinning patrons, acquaintances and more have been so supportive. You’ve left kind comments, you’ve purchased the book, you’ve sent sweet emails, you’ve passed the word along to your own groups. Every single message has been encouraging.

Now that the book is out in the world, it’s on its own journey. I am starting to learn the world of marketing and promotion to help it along, but it’s really going to depend on whether people like it, try knitting the things, and talk about it. Putting any big project like this out into the world is an exercise in vulnerability. Perhaps the subject matter makes this project even more so. But, at least in one sense, the work is done, and I release it to live its own life in the hands and minds of my readers.

If there were one pattern in the collection that you were to try, what would it be? I can tell you that this pattern, Fragile, has been the most popular on Ravelry so far. I’m already spinning to make another Waves. I’m humbly opening back up the Osborn Fiber Studio Ravelry group, which saw a lot of activity back when I did the Liturgical Year pattern collection, but has been collecting dust since before I had kids! Anyway, if you’d like to share your projects, your stories, and support each other, that would be a great place to do it.

I hope you’ve had a blessed solstice and that your yule has been a delight to you. I’ll be back after the Christmas holiday with some behind-the-scenes posts about my yarn of choice for this book, all about the photo shoots that you’ve been seeing peeks of, and explorations to return to some of my patterns with handspun. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!