I feel badly for people who don't create. They miss out on the joy of middle of the night inspiration. You know what I mean. Those times you wake up in the wee hours with an idea that just cannot wait. Maybe you force yourself to stay in bed until morning, or perhaps you convince yourself that 4 am is a perfectly reasonable time to get up and start right in. About a month or so ago the idea for my Scrappy Duane Park Triangle was born in this way. For the record, I did force myself to stay in bed that night. But when morning arrived I hopped right out of bed and immediately began searching my fingering weight scraps.
Once I had a good sized pile of yarn, I arranged the colors in order -- roughly approximating where they would fall on the color wheel -- and cast on. I could hardly put this one down. Duane Park Triangle is a quick knit, so from start to finish this shawl took only a few days. I am delighted to report that the finished piece lives up to that late night dream of a lovely colorful shawl. A absolutely love it!
WOW. gorgeous. I think if I had that fibery dream, 4am would have been just the right time to start it! (4 am is a good time to start even so-so fibery dreams!!! around here!!!!)
Posted by: steph | January 13, 2015 at 08:42 AM
3 am. pondering leftover Fog yarn bits. remembering gorgeous splash of color worn by a lovely lady on a recent rainy day in NYC. would have gotten up and immediately cast on, but yarn is elsewhere, sigh, twitch, twitch, back to sleep.
Posted by: Jani | January 13, 2015 at 08:44 AM
Very pretty!
Posted by: sprite | January 13, 2015 at 09:55 AM
i really like this!
Posted by: maryse | January 13, 2015 at 11:35 AM
That is a stunning shawl. I wish I had such great ideas in the wee hours of the night.
Posted by: Brandy | January 13, 2015 at 12:09 PM
I recently raided my stash of Majestic Mohair to knit 2 lap duvets using the triangular idea. Still another bag left--oh, my.
Your shawl is really gorgeous. Perhaps I need to head for the sock yarn stash next!! This is my year to use up *most* of the stash.
Posted by: Elaine | January 13, 2015 at 12:53 PM
i love the interplay of color and texture that you've achieved. it's spectacular!
Posted by: Meredith MC | January 13, 2015 at 09:58 PM
Ooh I like. Great colors. Makes me happy.
Posted by: Andrea @This Knitted Life | January 14, 2015 at 01:27 AM
Gorgeous colors. The last knitting dream I had was a woman wearing pants she had made of dishcloth cotton in the Peaches and Creme pattern. That inspired me to make a little girl's dress in the pattern, but I think no pants...
Posted by: marylou | January 14, 2015 at 08:42 AM
Beautiful
Posted by: Leftfootdaisy | January 15, 2015 at 02:11 AM
Every time I saw you wearing the in NY I wanted to stare at it, it is so gorgeous, glad you act on your middle of the night inspirations!
Posted by: gale zucker (she shoots sheep shots) | January 29, 2015 at 10:07 PM