Oh my, yes yes and yes in triplicate!

A most intriguing design by Linnea Ornstein.  We are delighted to announce kits for knitting Triplett!

Get your pattern directly from the designer on her Ravelry page here.  Our kits consist simply of the yarns as described below.

The Design

Here is what Linnea writes:

Throw it around your neck once, twice, or three times. Pass the tip through the shawl from the front, from the back or from the side. The possibilites of this shawl are almost endless! Combined with the leaf design, Triplett is a fun and colourful project that gives you a really useful and pretty shawl!

Triplett is worked from one long edge of the shawl. Then the shape and the leaves are achieved with short-rows that grow longer and longer until you knit a full row in the middle of the shawl. Then the rows get shorter and shorter again towards the end. 

Between the leaves you will make giant button holes by binding off on one row and then casting on new stitches when you get back to the same place again. The entire shawl is knit in garter stitch, which makes it a simple ­project that anyone can execute as long as you know how to make knit stitches, turns, slip stitches and how to cast on and bind off.

Yarn and Colorways

Our yarns are not the same as what Linnea used in her original. We have followed her lead and found sport weight yarns in equivalent yardages and put together kits.  You can see our kits in the inset photo on the top picture on this page and again below that.

In each kit:

A. The solid background colorway will be Malabrigo's Arroyo, each skein 335 yards/ 100g in 100% superwash merino.  Two skeins will be in each kit.

B. The short-gradient colorway for the multi-colored "leaves" will be Skacel's Woll-Schwestern, 100% merino slightly felted with 164 yards (150 meters) / 50g ball. Two balls will be in each kit.

This yarn is dyed in with two plies each in a different hue, very slightly felted together.  I knit over 300 sttiches on size 4 needles before one color run began to change into the next.  

Kit #1

A = Arroyo in White

B = Woll-Schwestern in Clara.  This is a mutli color that includes red, indigo, purple, green, gold, emerald, lime, and fuchsia.  (I may have missed a few nuances and between-colors.)

(I know the two balls in the photo look rather different but they are the same colorway, just showing different parts of it.)

Kit #2

A = Arroyo in Black

B = Woll-Schwestern in Annegret.  The main colors I see are goldenrod, spring green, butterscotch, marigold, apricot and ballet slipper pink.

(Ditto) :-)