Châle Saison

Hello, hello! What an exciting time we’ve had since I last popped on here! On February 16th our little Grandson was born and let me tell you I have had the hardest time focusing my brain on anything besides updates and photos and baby snuggles! He is the light of our lives without a doubt and we are all completely smitten with him!

In much less exciting news, I finished my Châle Saison shawl out of some absolutely beautiful yarn from Cog Yarns that my eldest son and daughter-in-law gave me for Christmas!  The colours are absolutely beautiful and the yarn is so very soft! I used two full skeins to make the shawl.

I cast on my shawl straight away on Boxing Day. Châle Saison is a free pattern on Ravelry by the designer Laine Poudrée. I was quite impressed with both the pattern - it’s so straight forward - and the speed in which I was able to knit it! I actually finished it February 8th despite pausing to knit a few things for the baby in January (booties, socks and a Puerperium Cardigan)

I finally took the plunge (or my shawl did in any case) and I gave it a good Euclan wool wash bubble bath and blocked it out this weekend. 

My timing was impeccable because winter hit again yesterday (we had another extreme weather closure day which made it two closures in as many weeks! You won’t hear me complaining! Lol) I was able to bundle up in my shawl today to ward off the chill as I headed to work. My shawl cuff is from Knox Mountain Knitting Co. in case you were curious. 

I’ve got some other knitting finished in the last week too - both projects that have been in my WIP basket for awhile but I’ll save those for another day. I also cast on a pair of socks last night. It would seem my knitting mojo has returned with gusto!!