Included with each of our Secret Stash Club shipments, we’re sharing project ideas to help inspire what to make with your new hand-dyed hues. For our March 2024 Club yarn, Winter’s End, Charlotte paired this enchanting colourway along with Fable from our Ethereal Collection. Knitting these two alongside each other using Tabetha Hedrick’s Kiowa shawl design, resulted in a truly stunning piece.
ABOUT WINTER’S END
As Felicia shared in the story behind our March colourway Winter’s End, here in the Pacific Northwest we’ve had a really unusual, but not unprecedented, warm winter. That typically wouldn’t be a big deal except if your kids’ main winter activity is attempting to learn alpine ski racing. In the middle of winter, the 5 am drive to Whistler up the Sea-to-Sky highway is pitch black. There are very few lights along the way, so much of the drive is lit by your own headlights. At any time, you can only see about 20 feet in front of you. I’m driving 100 km an hour and sometimes it feels like I’m going nowhere. I’m just in darkness, not knowing what turn is coming next.
Despite it being a bit gruelling to do these early morning drives, I am already grieving it a bit. When will be the last time we do these long drives together? When will these winters come to an end?
You can read more about Winter’s End at this month’s colourway reveal post »
KNITTING WITH OUR MARCH CLUB
For this month’s Club yarn, Charlotte chose to partner the Winter’s End colourway with something to accentuate the soft and subtle rosy nuances in the skein, and the Fable colourway fits in perfectly side by side with Winter’s End. A fun and easy knit accessory, Tabetha Hedrick’s popular Kiowa shawl design highlights these colours in a delightful interplay of patterning. These two hand-dyed colourways come together in a beautiful shawl that adds a complimentary pop of colour to any outfit.
For our quarterly fibre club, Winter’s End was also dyed on our Polwarth+Silk spinning fibre base. This base is a beautiful combination that is easy to draft, super soft, and has a decadent shimmer from the silk. Winter’s End could create a delicate mixing and blending of colours through fractal spinning. We’d love to see a handspun Winter’s End Kiowa shawl project version!
JOIN THE CLUB
We look forward to sharing more project inspiration with colourways we’ve concocted as part of our Secret Stash Club. Telling stories through our colours and sharing how we see the world, we hope you join us there!
Winter’s End Kiowa
Equipment
- 1 Circular Knitting Needles in size US 6 / 4.00 mm
Materials
- 1 skein SweetGeorgia Yarns Tough Love Sock in Winter's End
- 1 skein SweetGeorgia Yarns Tough Love Sock in Fable
Instructions
- To knit the Kiowa shawl design, download a copy of the pattern which is available at the SweetGeorgia online shop. (Link to purchase pattern below.)
- With MC (Fable), follow directions for casting on 3 sts, following setup rows, and then joining in CC (Winter's End).
- From this point forward, increases will be worked only on the body side, while the back neck stitch counts remain the same.
- Follow pattern directions for the striped increase and eyelet increase sections.
- Follow pattern directions for the eyelet decrease and striped decrease sections.
- Continue knitting through solid and final decrease sections.
- Bind off firmly.
- Block to measurements. Weave in ends and enjoy!
Notes
Link to Pattern
Link to pattern
