Wednesday Hands: WIP: Feather and Fan Comfort Shawl

One of the problems I have with spinning is that when I'm done I have all these odd balls of yarn. Sure, socks can be made with two ounces of fiber, spun fine. But even I get tired of socks and nothing but. And I could spin a couple of pounds of something, but then I get tired of all that monotonous spinning.

Which is why I love any kind of odd-ball pattern. The one I'm working on is a striped feather and fan shawl out of several balls of handspun.

Ima and I rummaged through the spinning cabinet and came up with a palette of grays, accented with the blue, red and purple tones from the Easter egg dye yarns I spun earlier this year, and a small skein of Ashford Bay merino in dark blue. (Ima is trying to talk me out of the yellow Easter egg skein. We'll see, Ima, we'll see.)

One of the grays has some dark red and sparkle in it. It's a batt I won as Spinners Triathlon Champ at OFFF in 2005, so it's special to me. And while at first I was disappointed in that batt, I LOVE it now. It's cushy and cozy. One of the other grays is a skein I got in a swap that has a lot of lavender in it. It goes well with the purple-y Easter egg yarn.

I don't know that this will ever be a shawl I'll wear in public, but then I'm getting old and eccentric enough that I just might. Since I'm not fringing it, perhaps I may. Mostly I just want something to wrap up in our chilly TV room on a cool night, and I think this will fit the bill admirably.