I’ve never been quite sure what to do with this one. It’s a fair bit brighter yellow, pink and green with a little blue in real life, with the yellow fairly dominant. (If you embiggen it the colors come out truer.) The yarn is Fleece Artist’s Merino 2/6 in Sorbetto, machine washable, totally practical for, say, a mom with small children to try to keep up with, and at the time I got it, I didn’t think I could do anything shawl-ish with one 350m skein of sock yarn. Now I know I can, but this was already knitted by then. I used the lace pattern in the main body of the Michelle shawl, six repeats across with one extra stitch at each side, and got a nice length out of it. (Cast on 39 on size 6mm needles, American size 10…) The eye is more pleased with patterns in odd numbers, but this was visually busy enough that one would never casually notice that it was done in an even number of repeats. It’s a good use of the yarn; it made a nice scarf for wrapping multiple times around the neck to keep out the cold.
Of which, however, there is not a whole lot in northern California. A short wrap to tie in front against the chilly fog would be much more the thing for around here, and I’ve long debated frogging this and reknitting it.
Except it’s a perfectly nice scarf and there’s no good-enough reason to waste the effort. Yarn can always be replaced with more. Time cannot ever.
It’ll find its rightful home in its rightful time.
