Elemental Knitting Series (Water): Glacia Shawl WIP

Hey everyone! I thought I’d pop by with a bit more info about the Glacia Shawl that I’ve been working on for the first instalment of my Elemental Knitting series. As I mentioned in my earlier post this series is an idea I came up with to help knitters become a little more comfortable and knowledgeable about their stitches. This isn’t a knitting tutorial, and I’m not doing it to teach you to knit from scratch, rather to help you understand your work better. I designed the shawl with the assumption that you know the basic knitting stitches and are comfortable to use YouTube or the advice of knitting friends to learn the bits you don’t already know.

The Glacia shawl is all about Increases and Decreases! Now, there are many different variations of both,  and every knitter has their favourites, so I have taken a few of each and put them together into a design.  This will teach you how you can use increases and decreases to create shape and texture within your work. In the process, you will be creating a gorgeous, lightweight wrap which looks fabulous, if I do say so myself!

My original shawl is made with Scheepjes Whirl Ombré in Turquoise Turntable which is a really gorgeous colourway. The colour changes with the Ombré are so subtle, you hardly even notice them happening. Unlike colourways where the actual colour changes, like for example from yellow to blue, the colour shifts ever so slightly in shade. If it weren’t for the Fuzzbuzz I’d have never even known it was happening. If you aren’t familiar with Fuzzbuzz, it’s these little foofs of fiber that you get when a new strand is being added. Those of us who work regularly with Whirl rejoice when we see them because we know colour changes are happening!

(L-R) Turquoise Turntable, Key Lime Pi, Shrinking Violet

My lovely testers are currently busy working away on the shawl, so far it all seems to be going really well and they appear to be  enjoying it! Many of the tests I’ve given them were very large projects on short deadlines, so I wanted to make this a relaxed project that they could take their time with. Rather than rushing to meet a date, I wanted them to just knit and relax, as it’s important to be able to do that sometimes. Their work is coming along beautifully, though, so I’m sure it won’t be too long of a wait now.

In the meantime I will try to get some more nicely detailed photos of my finished shawl to share with you before the release!

I’ll be back with those soon!

WHERE TO BUY

If you would like to prepare ahead, this project can be made with any Scheepjes Whirl, Woolly Whirl, Frosted Whirl or Whirlette!

UK and International buyers can find Whirl at Woolwarehouse, Black Sheep Wools and Deramores.
Canadian and International buyers have a great option with Knotty House.
Those of you in the Netherlands can find all you need at Caro’s Atelier.

You can also ask your preferred Scheepjes retailer or find a shop near you!

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