The Phoenix Rises Again

When I visited Maine last autumn, I bought my first-ever gradient pack at the lovely Blue Hill Yarn Shop. Then I got home and poured over Ravelry to see what I might do with it. Another knitter had used the exact same yarn and colorway to knit a beautiful shawl, and I settled on that. It was only after I tracked down the pattern that I realized it was another of Kino Knits' amazing designs.


Fast forward to late winter, when I was packing my bag for a road trip, and decided to start the shawl. I read through the directions, and wound the gradient skeins into balls, weighing and dividing them into labeled ziplock bags with a hole cut in one corner. That way I wouldn't have to be comparing gradient colors on the road, and the bags would keep the colors from getting tangled in the larger project bag.

Once on the road, I discovered what a terrific road knit this was. Each color had a texture pattern consisting of only a couple of rows that I had memorized within a mile. Since we stop every two hours to stretch and switch drivers, I never got tired of it.


The only hiccup was just before we started back, when an over-excited partial bottle of ginger ale, that I had dropped into my project bag when clearing the hotel room, fizzed all over the yarn. Fortunately this happened at breakfast, and the waitress cheerfully brought more napkins to mop everything up. And once I got home, the pre-blocking soak removed any last traces.

Yarn: String Theory Hand Dyed Yarn's Reversing Falls Gradient Pack in Dahlia
Needles: US 6 (4mm)
Pattern: Kino Knits' Greener on My Side