Pattern: Punavarpunen shawl (made for this project)

Yarn: Novita Nalle

Needles: 4mm

I keep seeing all these beautiful shawls in other blogs, but I had never knitted one. I guess I didn't know where I would use one, so it never occurred to me to knit one. Well, here's the opportunity to change that as I'll be giving the shawl away. I wanted to try some knew techniques, and also do a bit of stash busting, so I ended up picking a bag of Novita Nalle leftovers. I can't remember what I once knitted with these colors, but they seemed to be matching and in nice fall colors, so I started experimenting.

I wanted to do a basic striped garter stitch shawl with a little twist. The twist comes from the brioche stripes that use two colors and the stripes knitted with self-striping yarn. I thought brioche was something almost new to me as I thought that it must have been like 20 years since I tried it last time. Well, digging deeper into my stash a couple of days ago revealed a brioche cowl that only needs weaving in ends and I remembered knitting that only 3-4 years ago. Not really a new technique then, but I don't remember doing it with two colors before. Of course, I might have just forgotten about doing it. Btw, I need to send in that cowl also, if I just manage to make myself finalize it...