Today it is my pleasure to announce a knit-along for Migraineur! For January-March, I will be making some WAVES. I’d love it if you would like to knit along with me – either knitting Waves, or any of the other patterns from my book.
Waves, which you can read more about here, was one of the first patterns I hatched for this book. It’s a simple concept, with just enough of a slant to keep it engaging. When I think about which shawl I’d like to knit again, I keep coming back to this one.
What will YOU make for this migraineur-along? Are you up for a bigger shawl project? Or would you prefer to try something more bite-sized, like SPIKE? (That is the other one I’m itching to cast on again myself.)
To participate, you can join in a couple different places. First, I’m reviving the Osborn Fiber Studio Ravelry group. This group was quite active back when I did the Knitting through the Liturgical Year collection, but that was when I was pregnant with my oldest! I’m checking it almost every day, and it’s a good place to share your projects. Second, you can find me on Instagram as @osbornfiber, and you can use the tags #migraineurknitting and/or #migraineuralong to join in. There will be prizes – make sure you’re subscribed here for updates on that.
I’ll be knitting Waves in my handspun. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
I made these rolags for spinDecember, a project piloted by Dionne in our Wool n’ Spinning community. She saves bits and bobs from all her spinning projects, then puts them together into some almighty blends in December. I went through a bag of just stuff fiber that had no other purpose, but that I’d been saving just in case. The last of the felting stash I have is in here, lots of neppy roving, lots of grey, some carding waste, some silk, and even some cotton. I painted it all on my blending board in thin layers, pulled off enormous rolags, and am spinning them into these delightful textured singles on my e-spinner.
I haven’t decided yet, but I may make Waves as a single-colour project. There’s so much going on in this yarn that I don’t know that it needs the intarsia! But I might throw in some stripes of Milarrochy tweed in, picking up one or all of the pops of colour in the handspun:
I hope you’ll join me for this celebratory KAL. There’s a lot to rejoice in – the new year, for me a new book, the slow return of the sun, and a fresh start. See you there!
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