photo © Carrie Bostick Hoge
Yesterday, I had the absolute and distinct pleasure of releasing a pattern with Quince & Co.
Every since this Maine-based yarn producer opened up shop literally up the street from where I work, I've been a hugefan and when the opportunity arose to publish this shawl pattern with them, I leapt at the chance!!
I still can't believe that that's my shawl up there. It's more to do with Carrie's photography than anything else, but man, I love the Quince photos.
photo © Carrie Bostick Hoge
One of my knitolutions for the year was to design a shawl and I knew I wanted to do something ocean-inspired, without leaning on my usual oceanic blues and turquoises. (Not that I've given up on those). When I picked up these skeins of Tern and saw the colorway was called Seagrass, that settled it.
Alaria (the name is from a genus of seaweed) flows between three simple lace patterns reminiscent of aquatic foliage. The shawl is a traditional triangle shape and all lace work is done on the right side rows only.
The sample was knit in two skeins (about 440 yards) of Quince & Co.'s Tern - a fingering weight silk/wool blend. It blocks beautifully and the silk gives it just a hint of sheen. (I will note that when I knit the sample, it used up all the yarn except for a teeny-tiny amount, so depending a knitter's gauge, it could sneak into a third skein).
As designed, the shawl is a great size for throwing over your shoulders or bunching up as a scarf, and should a larger shawl be required, additional repeats of 24 rows can be easily added to the first and/or second lace patterns.
photo © Carrie Bostick Hoge
You can queue up the pattern on Ravelry, or purchase the pattern via Quince & Co ($6 USD).
