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August 30, 2013

From Susan — Ingenius

Filed under: Updates — lv2knit @ 6:05 pm

Have you ever bought yarn that you looked at later and thought, “What the %$%%^ was I thinking??”  I bought some sock yarn called Purl Diver Adorn Sock from A Good Yarn in Sarasota Florida.  Bright.  Real bright.  Too bright.  You need retina reattachment surgery after just looking at it!

Anyway, while at knitting camp this summer, I saw a pattern worked up in yarns that made Purl Diver look blah.  And the pattern worked well in these over-the-top yarns.  The pattern is a one-skein shawlette called Trillian, and it is ingenious, fun, and very easy to knit…just repeat two rows until you are almost done.   It is equally nice in lovely, tame colors!!


Trillian in Adorn Sock, color Purl Diver

It is long and skinny and you work it until you have ~10% of your yarn left and then you work some finishing rows.  This means you shouldn’t run out of yarn!

This shows the cute corner:

I think this is a great pattern for any of those skeins of sock yarn you may have floating around that seemed great in the skein and then a bit “too much” when given a second glance!!  Or that lovely sock yarn you want people to be able to SEE! 🙂

6 Comments »

  1. perfection!! it is a great pattern for that eye-popping color ~ doesn’t hurt that it looks really close to Seattle Seahawks team colors either 🙂

    Comment by Melissa — August 30, 2013 @ 6:24 pm

  2. Thank you, Susan! I have favorited it. I find that when I buy anything (yarn or clothing) in Florida or California (I have relatives in both states, poor me), that it almost never looks right when I take it home to Maryland. Some things should just not travel outside their native land. So Trillian may be just the answer for a lot of exuberant little skeins in my stash. Now if I can just keep them from jumping into my bag when I’m in Los Angeles.

    Comment by Chloe — August 30, 2013 @ 7:31 pm

  3. Your yarn reminds me of one that I dyed a few years back. I think I have three skeins of it, enough for everyone!

    Love this shawl. I bought two skeins of a Zauerball, and it will be perfect to use most of it up!

    Comment by Penny — August 30, 2013 @ 8:04 pm

  4. Love it! So simple but a great effect!

    Comment by Kathy W. — August 31, 2013 @ 10:53 am

  5. Your timing is excellent. I just pulled out some crazy magenta, teal, & black from deep stash, and Trillium looks like a great choice for it. Thanks for saving me some time.

    Comment by Metaphor Yarns — August 31, 2013 @ 8:20 pm

  6. This is my favourite colour combination of all time. I think the long winters here and all the dark make me a little unstable(haha) but this is the perfect thing to knit and wear in February.

    Comment by Needles — September 11, 2013 @ 10:06 am

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