What’s on My Needles Wednesday

Welcome to the first installment of what’s on my needles Wednesday, where I share what I’m working on.

Yup, sometimes project and patterns can take a little while to make. This means that I generally have some silence on the blog in between my pattern releases. My new series, What’s on my Needles Wednesday will change that!

On Wednesday’s, I’m going to share what I’m currently working on so that you can catch a glimpse of what’s to come. And I can share more information about the materials, skills and other fun tidbits with you.

So What’s on my needles Wednesday?

You might have seen the spam on my Instagram about this really fun new pattern recently. I’m making my first Pi Shawl, or rather half Pi Shawl. What is a Pi Shawl? First designed by Elizabeth Zimmerman, author or the Knitter’s Almanac, Pi Shawls combine geometry with knitting to product a perfectly round shawl.

Half Pi Shawls, like the one I’m making therefore, are shaped like a half circle. Where you typically need to block other shawls to obtain this shape, these shawls are preformed and really fun to knit.

Pi Shawls use rows of strategically placed increases to keep the shape. You can kind of see mine in the photo above. Learn more about Pi and Half Pi Shawls here.

For this project, I’m using the hand beaded silk yarn from Darn Good Yarn, which you can get here. You’ll need four skeins of this for the pattern. You can learn why I love this yarn by watching this vlog post below.

I first used Darn Good Yarn’s linen yarn on the Moonbeam Crescent Shawl pattern. You can learn more about why I liked their linen here.

I’m working on keeping this pattern simple to show off this beautiful yarn. This is sponsored by Darn Good Yarn and will be released on an upcoming Friday for free, and then will be available to purchase. Remember, use code “knittinginnorthpark15” for a 15% discount on anything you purchase from Darn Good Yarn.

What else is on my needles this Wednesday

As you know, we knitters aren’t an idle sort. We tend to have more than one project in the works! And I currently do. After working on many crescent and circular shawls, I’m working on a new triangular option. This one is featuring a really fun new skill I’ve learned: horizontal braids.

These simple cables are also known as: Estonian Braid, Vikkel Braid, Lateral Braid. And there are a couple different ways to do these. I’m working on a tutorial with which I’ll update this post later.