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December 29, 2019
Restful Rainbow Shawl from Michelle's Romantic Tangle

Lion Brand's Shawl in a Ball is exactly the kind of yarn that appeals to me when I'm standing there in the craft store. The promise that I can make a  whole shawl with one skein of yarn? Yes, please!  


When Hobby Lobby had it on clearance, I grabbed all of the different colorways. This one is Restful Rainbow and it's the least subdued of my choices. 

Whether or not you can get a full shawl out of one five hundred yard skein is open to interpretation. This is definitely a shawl and if I'd used ...

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added by Michelle 6 years ago. under 2019fo , knitting , shawls
December 3, 2019
Things to Love About a Troublesome Shawl from Michelle's Romantic Tangle

There are things to like about this shawl. I love the colors and the combination of stockinette and garter stitch ridges, which are the same thing I did on the previous Wildstreak Shawl but look better on this one.



I absolutely love the combination of k2p2 ribbing and garter stitch ridges that keep it from flipping up at the bottom like the last one did.


What I don't love is that there were so many knots in the skeins that I now have eighteen ends to weave in. I also don't love that the loosely spun yarn was ...

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added by Michelle 6 years, 1 month ago. under 2019fo , knitting , shawls
October 9, 2019
Caramel Me Away Shawl from Michelle's Romantic Tangle

I needed something mindless on my needles so a few days ago I cast on with a cake of self striping acrylic from my Hobby Lobby clearance stash. The plan was to knit a garter stitch triangle until I ran out of yarn and just look at how well that plan worked out for me!


I like this one a lot more than I thought I would. It took the tiniest bit of fiddling to keep the stripe pattern consistent because when I bought the yarn I didn't know there was a trick to selecting the cakes to ensure ...

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added by Michelle 6 years, 3 months ago. under 2019fo , knitting , shawls
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