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Well, I made up my mind!

I finally made up my mind and finished the Color Affection using my left over sock wool.

Since I put the pictures up on my Ravelry page about a dozen or so people responded in the nicest way possible.

Some say I inspired them to make the Color Affection with sock wool too.

Others say they love the idea of making the shawl the way I did.

Maybe I will make another one the way it should be done. That would be funny. While others are doing the Color Affection with left over sock wool, I will be making a more normal one with just three colors.

It is such a great design by Veera Välimäki. I love it. I did not follow the instructions completely. What else is new? Gave it my own twist. I love the end result.

Thank you!, my beautiful daughter, for modelling it with flair.

 

Make up your mind, woman!

Like the other 3196 people I fell in love with the Color Affection by Veera Välimäki. I started it last month.

It took me like forever to choose the final color combination. How hard can this be? Just three colors. Must be the easiest thing in the world. Well, not for me. It seems.

I really tried. I really did. But I failed. I was already working on the short rows and realised that I did not like the color combination I was using. It is not the yarn. It is lovely. Madeline Tosh Merino Light in the Smokestack, Corsage and Sequoia colorway (bought at Penelope Craft).

Somehow, it didn’t feel right. It just did not speak to me. So, I ripped it out. Frogged it and started over with all those little leftover balls of sockwool I still have after finishing my third pair of Patchworksocks.

Modifications: I make a double yarnover on the backrows instead of a single one. This gives a bit more stretch to the border.

I am on the second part where you are supposed to work with the main color and the first other color. I am just ignoring this and make my way up to the short rows changing colors at random. Or whenever the leftover ball is finished.

I am sure I will make this shawl again the way it should be. That is with three colors the way Veera did it. But for now this is the way I choose to do it. Ask me again in a few weeks…if the shawl isn’t frogged by then.