I finished knitting this before the California trip, but didn't get around to blocking it until I returned. This is a project that I thought was gorgeous when I saw a picture on Ravelry, and then by chance ran across the same gradient yarn on a drive from Chicago to Madison, where we stopped at several yarn stores because that makes the drive go faster. :) Anyway, I decided to replicate the pattern with the same gradient, and I do still think it looks gorgeous. The yarn has more orange than yellow, so it comes out as a somewhat even transition from the smaller end to the larger end.






But it's a weird pattern, or maybe it's just that I haven't done this particular varient of shawl/scarflet before. So, there are a lot of triangular shawls where the neckline is the hypotenuse, and the corner is the bottom of the back. And there are other shawls where there are increases as you go, to make batwings or a semicircle, or even more than 180 degrees of an arc (I think Faroese shawls are often like that). This is a very obtuse triangle, where there are a ton of increases at the sides, but none in the middle. So when you finish knitting, it's a very short wide triangle, but then you curve it as you block it so that the top of the triangle goes out flat, and the bottom flat edge curves. Does that make sense? Maybe it needs an illustration.






I guess this is the best way to get smooth curved stripes? But even after blocking, it secretly still wants to bunch up the fabric at the back of my neck, because it knows what shape it was when it was born.

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