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Two-Skein Shawl Patterns for Spring

This week, spring is in the air, so I wanted to share some beautiful 2-skein shawl patterns that are perfect for spring along with some yarn pairings to go with them.

Let’s start with the patterns. I did a deep dive on Ravelry and found eight crochet patterns to share and nine knitting patterns. They all use two different colorways of fingering-weight yarn. Most have beautiful lacey stitches or fabulous slip stitches, and a few “create” a new colorway by combining the other two.

I included the names of the patterns so you can find them on your favorite pattern website if Ravelry isn’t your jam.

Crochet Patterns

Knitting Patterns

Yarn Pairings

Have you chosen your favorite pattern yet? The one that just sings spring to you? Once you have, let’s find some yarn to go with the pattern!

I took lots and lots of photos and then narrowed them down to the pairings that really looked good together and also looked like spring. A few of them have an assigned pooling colorway as one of the pair, but most are a variegated colorway paired with a semi-solid. I’ve sorted them out by yarn base, and if you click on the name below each photo, it will take you directly to that colorway. Here we go!

Yarn Pairings on Sock Perfection

Burgundy Rose + Northern Lights

Lilac + Monet’s Cathedral

Turquoise + Visit to Lyme

Lilac + The Wedding of Aragorn and Arwen

Yarn Pairings on Sparkly Merino Sock

Peacock Eyes + Peacock Feathers

Phantom of the Opera + Sapphire Dreams

Yarn Pairings on Stained Glass Sock

Monet’s Water Lilies + Lilac

Northern Lights + Regal

The Wedding of Aragorn and Arwen + Eggplant

Yarn Pairings on So Silky Sock

Burgundy Rose + Paris

Dreams of the Sea + Visit to Lyme

Ocean at Night + Eggplant

Phantom of the Opera + Lilac

I hope you find something to brighten your spring from among the patterns and yarn pairings!

The April Club Colorway

Last month we had moved from Ancient Egypt to Ancient Greece. Now we are heading East to Ancient China.

Like last month and the month before, this was painted on a tomb. It was the tomb of Xu Xianxiu, and it was painted around 500 AD. Xu Xianxiu was one of the seven sages of the Bamboo Grove–a group of scholars and writers who chose to live simply instead of taking part in the intrigue of court life.

One of the things that has been tricky is finding paintings as opposed to sculptures, which were much more common in ancient times. As we move ahead into the Medieval era, it will be easier to find paintings to use. Nonetheless, I think this painting will be quite interesting as yarn and art batts with some different color combinations than I have done before.

Fresh from the Dye Pots

This has been a good and productive dye week! I started with Phantom of the Opera on several yarn bases. Here it is on So Silky Sock:

After that I dyed up more Peacock Feathers, which you can see here on the four yarn bases I dyed it on:

It’s an assigned pooling colorway I introduced last summer. My goal was to make a yarn that looked like actual peacock feathers and not the stereotype of them if that makes sense. I also dyed up Peacock Eyes as a variegated colorway to go with it.

After that, I dyed Rosy-Fingered Dawn, which may be the springiest of spring colorways. Here that is on Sparkly Merino Sock:

Rosy-Fingered Dawn was inspired by that oft-repeated phrase from Homer’s Odyssey. The yarn was still too wet to include in the yarn pairing photos, but Rosy-Fingered Dawn looks great with Paris.

Last of all I dyed Sapphire Dreams, which is one of my personal favorite colorways. Here it is on Stained Glass Sock:

In addition to dyeing up all of these, I carded up a few new Mystery Art Batts this week. They are so much fun to spin because each one is a unique surprise.

I think that is everything for this week. I hope you have a wonderful week filled with blooming trees, flowers, and fabulous yarn and fiber.