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I love this design.
We offered kits for these back in 2016 and I think it is high time that we offer some new ones.
Note that they are not the same as what the designer used in her original; you can see what we have in the inset photo on the top picture (upper left-hand corner) and again right below that.
We chose bright and rich colors, which are quite different than Sylvia's soft neutrals. (Read on for more data.)
The other photos (included here with permission) are here to show the overall design and allow you to use your imagination.
The Design
Here is what Sylvia Bo Bilvia, amazing designer of Waiting for Rain has to say about this shawl:
Waiting for Rain is a lovely, beautiful garter and lace crescent shawl that uses an unusual short row lace technique.
It fits perfectly over your shoulders and drapes in a way which is very pleasing to the eye. It’s worked top down with lacey increases.
Hacking your Waiting for Rain shawl PDF now included in purchase! This includes instructions for how to do stripes, how to move or add lace panels, make lace panels larger, and how to do the fancy knit-on cast-off shown in the two colour version. It also includes a tight-edge fix. I hope you enjoy!
Stitch counts included!
I believe that I may have developed a new technique! Charted lace short rows! This is different than any other charted0-style short rows I’ve seen because it can easily incorporate large lace motifs! I’m calling it softsweaters charted short row technique! (Because I’m pretty damn excited that I created a technique!)
The way the garter opens up to reveal lovely architectural lace is like lace-y rips through the garter. I’m pleased as peach with the way this project turned out. I hope you enjoy working it!
The Yarn and Colorways
The original piece used between 780 - 800 yards (713 - 732 m) of fingering weight yarn.
Since then, Sylvia has written up and included in the pattern data on how to add other colors via stripes. And many of the shawls that you see in the Project Pages use a second color to do the stripes as well as the lace insets. I love the look.
Our kits are made up of Tosh Merino Light, 100% superwash merino, with 420 yards (384m) per 100g skein.
I randomly chose this project (links to Ravelry) simply to to show what is possible with two contrasting skeins of Tosh Merino Light:
There are others that used more skeins for the background colorway and if that is how you would like to go, contact me and we can discuss.
Our Kit includes one skein of each of these -- your choice which to use for the background colorway and which for the insets:
1. Moonstone, a gentle grayed almost-solid lilac.
2. Heart of Glass, a tonal blend of varying rich purples ranging from a fuchsia to a deep royal .
The Pattern
I quote Sylvia here: The pattern comes with both written and charted instructions! So for folks who aren’t comfortable with charts, you can just ignore them :)
Please note that the pattern is not included in this particular Kit.
You must purchase it directly from Sylvia's Ravelry Store. This will also make sure the pattern is stored in your Library and should there be any updates, you will get them automatically.
