Truffle Shawl

And here's another knitting update!  This will be the last one for a while I think as I'm now at the beginning of new projects rather than the wrapping-up stage of old ones.

This was a super fun, easy knit and made a really warm cozy shawl.  Not too big that you feel smothered, but just the right size for keeping you toasty walking through the chilly air.  

The pattern is the Truffle Shawl by Melody Johnson.  For anyone who doesn't know here, Melody is a phenomenal art quilter who has recently focused a lot on knitting and creating new variations in knitting.  She's made a series of different garments and patterns using these mitered squares, and when she offered to share this shawl pattern I jumped at the chance.  I'd never done a mitered squares pattern before and it turned out to be fun and easy.  No seaming, just all picked up stitches to join on the next blocks.  She usually uses variegated yarns in her projects which makes the pattern stand out in a really beautiful way, but I didn't have anything like that and was pretty committed to using stash yarns.  I pulled out this wonderful green merino and threw in this super fun ribbon yarn for contrast (Thanks Georgia!!). They knit up surprisingly great together.

It was really hard to photograph the whole thing because the ribbon yarn metallic was very reflective, but you can get an idea of how wonderful the yarns look together in the in process pictures above.

I mostly do openwork or lace shawl patterns, and this is so warm and snuggly and scrunchy and different.  Super fun!  Thanks so much to Melody for sharing her pattern!