Swallowtail Shawl

[spyridona]

I knit up a Swallowtail Shawl in KnitPick's Shadow (Jewels Heather). I'd had the yarn in my stash for maybe two years (possibly three?). I frogged it twice, but then from my new cast-on to completion, this was done in ten days. I am unreasonably proud of it.

Comments

[minxy]

Oh, lovely! The color is beautiful too. Go you!

[spyridona]

Shadow is an absolutely gorgeous yarn. The camera doesn't pick it up, but it's a blue and purple heather, very delicate looking. It's a bitch to wind though. (I should be getting a ball winder - also from KnitPicks - in the mail in the next day or so, so maybe I'll have a more favorable view in the future.)

[beckyzoole]

So pretty!

What makes the yarn difficult to wind? Is it splitty?

[spyridona]

It's sticky actually. It has the strange tendency to stick to itself (which also makes frogging somewhat hellish). If you can get past the stickiness, it's pretty good, though.

[pensnest]

Not unreasonably at all - it's beautiful.