Yet Another Shawl

This week I have started making yet another shawl using Debbie Bliss Rialto Luxury Sock Yarn.  It is a design by Helga Isager and is supposed to be knitted using 2 Isager yarns producing a subtle striped shawl.

I liked the simple pattern but my shawl is not going to be very subtle.  At the moment it is blue and orange stripes.  I chose one shade which is mainly blue and the other shade which changes colour quite a lot.

I am supposed to be knitting all sorts of other things but sometimes it is just nice to knit something easy.  I have been suffering from a nasty virus and some days I did not actually knit anything at all.  Hopefully I will soon have more energy and will be able to get back to knitting something difficult. 

Apple and Banana

I have finished another two pieces of fruit to go with my orange and lemon.

The apple looks quite small but it is almost identical to the size of the original. 

I had several goes at coming up with a design for the banana.  It is the ridges that are the problem.  Other designers of bananas have used a wide rib but I wanted to produce a ridge rather than a dip which is produced by using rib. 

I have also finished the shawl I was making. 

I bought the yarn from James in Oxford Yarn Store at the beginning of June.  I must have encouraged him to have a go at something similar – as there is a photo of a shawl he has knitted in the latest newsletter.  Debbie Bliss Rialto luxury sock yarn certainly is lovely yarn and I recommend it to anyone.  I wonder if it is any good for socks.  It has such a long colour change that I would have thought the socks would not look very similar – but maybe that doesn’t matter.  It is certainly great for shawls.