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Published on January 12, 2020

Finished! Skyfall Shawlette, Scheepjes SKIES Heavy and Light

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Remember this WIP from December? I have been working on this shawlette for a little while and have really enjoyed making something that’s quasi-blanketarian, but a smaller and faster project. It’s like a small half blanket and just as engaging and lovely. I mentioned this once or thrice, but expect more shawl patterns in my future!

This cute little linen stitch WIP in Scheepjes SKIES Heavy* is lounging in a glorious yarn bowl*.

Scheepjes SKIES (Light and Heavy)

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Description of this yarn from the Scheepjes Website.

Made from an all-natural 100% Premium Blend cotton, the Scheepjes SKIES yarns are so soft you’d think you were holding a cloud. Dyed using beautiful shades of Indigo; a textile dye dating back to 4000BC, these yarns feature subtle colour contrasts and a hand dyed appearance. Ranging from the pale blue of a partially overcast Spring morning, to the deep Indigo of a midday Summer sky, transforming then to the sinister olive greens which overcome grassy pastures in the midst of a storm, capture the beauty and volatility of our glorious atmosphere with SKIES.

The Scheepjes SKIES collection encompasses 2 lines of yarn; Scheepjes SKIES Heavy and Scheepjes SKIES Light. With each sharing the same fibre content and range of colours, their differentiating feature is their weight, being DK and fingering respectively. When washing for the first time, we highly recommend using a colour catcher as there may be small amounts of residual dye.

One hank of each Heavy and Light are needed for this project. The color range is beautiful, so any two will look gorgeous. The two hanks pictured in the photo above are:

  • Heavy No. 108 Circumcumulus
  • Light No. 113 Altostratus

Shop SKIES Light

Shop SKIES Heavy

Skyfall Shawlette

And now, introducing: the Skyfall Crochet Shawlette! She is a little crochet number that I cooked up when I decided to use the KISS method for designing, and then half-way through, I went all lace on it… Well, hopefully it’s still a fairly simple pattern! I know you like a low-concentration one every now and then.

Hashtags: #SkyfallShawlette and #CypressTextiles as always

But once the SKIES Heavy hank is used up, its time to turn off the TV and turn on the podcast… You have to pay a little more attention on the lacy part, but it isn’t anything too complex.

VVCAL 2016 Border Revival

I based this lacy edging on my 2016 VVCAL Blanket border because everyone really seemed to love it, and loads of folks have used that border on various other blankets. I wanted to use a blanket border for this shawlette edging to prove to myself that a shawl with this construction is just a blanket cut on the diagonal. Turns out, it’s true!

After all this time making blankets and being intimidated by non-blanket makes, I now have a new project obsession. Of course this only comes after I finally got hula hoop mandalas out of my system – only 12 hula hoops later, haha.

Here is Skyfall Shawlette in all her glory.

I had about a million projects brewing in my mind while I was working on Skyfall, and I really wanted to put it aside and start any one of them. But, guess what! Before I could do that, suddenly I was finished. Shawlettes are made of magic.

An Over-the-Shoulder Wonder

Eeeep! I’m enchanted by this piece, and SKIES Light is the best lace yarn I have ever worked with, as the drape is phenomenal and the hand is lovely.

My eldest daughter, Rebecca (13), modeled Skyfall for me – of course she is hiding the fact that she’s just stuffed an entire chocolate chip cookie in her mouth at once, and then casually smiled for the pic.

Skyfall is that perfect little something for Spring just to keep the breeze off your shoulders. It took me a few days to work up, and that’s with a bunch of frogging to get the pattern just right.

With another mouthful of cookies, you can see her modelling the shawlette with the upper edge folded down like a small collar. I do love this look as well!

Thank you for stopping in to see my FO reveal. I’ll release the free pattern on Tuesday!

Happy crafting,

Rachele C.

The Art of Crochet Blankets

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