Another new design - W529

This is another new design, its a simple granny square shawl, nothing spectacular about the design but simplistic enough to show off slightly more "fancy" yarns without the pattern being totally obscured and overshadowed by the yarn or the fancifulness of the yarn getting buried by too much pattern.  I see, all too often, photos of knitted or crochet lace in complex designs and made with a really colourful patterned yarn and its just too much for the eyes to take in.  You need to think about balance and choose one or the other, what do you want to show off, the complex design or the complex colours of the yarn, putting both together in one project does not work in my opinion.

This is made with some Jacob wool that I spun way back in 2013 and you can read all about how I made the yarn by scrolling to the bottom of the blog post linked here, its the last yarn made from that particular fleece. I used both skeins to make this shawl.

In the final product photos, the colourful parts look almost luminous but as you can see from the last set of photos, it really isn't at all.