More Brioche

I'm just about ready to bind off my first brioche shawl of the year, so I decided to start another one!  I love knitting brioche, it's got such a fun rhythm, but in laceweight yarn it takes forever to get anywhere.  The finished fabric is like a cloud of softness (so, totally worth it).  This time I'm knitting in fingering weight yarn.*

This is the Cinnabar shawl knit in Hedgehog Fibres Skinny Singles in Sorry, Not Sorry and Pinky Swear.  It is just as eye-searingly bright in person as it is in the photo.  My projects in 2021 were all about color (except what I knit for Mickael and Caleb - those were all about gray), and apparently, I'm not finished with color yet.  Most years my projects seem to be pretty balanced between bright colors, muted colors, and neutrals, but right now it's still all color all the time.

*I realize if I really want brioche to knit up quickly, I could work it in worsted weight or even heavier.  I also realize that I live in Texas and the chances of me actually being able to use anything that heavy are 100% not happening.  Maybe people in Minnesota can use worsted weight brioche.

A Big Project

At the first of the year, I showed you the above photo of yarn.

I also showed you the same yarn skeined up.  (So.  Much.  Winding.)  It's time to talk about what all that yarn is becoming! 

I've started a Mystical Lanterns Blanket.  I love this design and purchased the yarn ages ago.  Then we got Mr. Noodle, who tends to steal wool blankets, but I decided to just go ahead and make it.  Mr. Noodle is maturing so maybe by the time I finish it, he'll stop his thieving ways.  Maybe.

Anyway, I'm making my blanket a little bigger than the pattern blanket and I decided to start with getting all of the center rounds done in all the colors.  At this point I've only got four or five (maybe six) colors left to go (I'm using 18).  Once I have all the center rounds done, I'll mix them all up and pull them randomly from a bag to add the next rounds.  I'm trying to be random here.  Mostly.  I've already decided that no motif should have the gold and one of the pinks in it.  Those colors will be what jumps out in the finished blanket and what moves your eye around, and I'm pretty sure that having more than one of this in a single motif would be like a giant bullseye and be the only thing anyone can see on the finished blanket.

This is going to be a long project, but I'm looking forward to it!

(Oh, and I just realized I forgot to mention, all the yarn is Dream in Color Classy.)