Finished! (Sort Of)

 

Back in September of 2019 I started knitting the Nardoo Shawl from some handspun yarn.  Last night I finished it.  I can't tell you how good it feels to get this off the needles.

I knit it as the pattern was written, but I'm pretty sure I worked a few extra repeats.  The yarn is a light fingering weight, 50% Merino/50% Mulberry Silk from BeesyBee in the Dark Chrysalis colorway.  It kind of blended from gray into the colors and I chain plied it to attempt to make a gradient yarn.  It sort of worked but not as well as I had hoped.  There's an article in Ply Magazine about carding to make a gradient yarn that I'd like to play around with and try again sometime.

It hasn't been blocked yet (hence, the "Sort Of" in the title) and I'm hoping to block it to a longer, narrower shape.  There's a lot of bounce in it so that will probably work.  Blocking should also open up the lace pattern.

I'm not 100% happy with this project, but I did learn something from it, and I know what the issues are that made me not completely happy, so hopefully I'll be successful next time I attempt to spin a gradient!