Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!

So, my good resolution of sticking with one WIP only lasted so long... To my defense, I absolutely hate knitting scarves, and who wants to work with mohair when it's 30°C outside? :) I'm afraid this scarf is going to hibernate a couple more years... In the meantime, I have started on a new design project I've been meaning to tackle for a while. My first traditional triangle shawl!

I'm working with the three madelinetosh colorways I talked about in the previous post, and I discovered something really interesting while looking for a name for the shawl. I really felt very strongly about using those three colors together, and when I researched the symbolism for red, blue and yellow I found this page about the Korean Sam Taegeuk and its meaning: 

The Korean-style Sam-Taegeuk

[three-part Grand Ultimate] Symbol,

used in Korean Shamanism, Neo-Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism

Blue = Heaven    Red = Earth    Yellow = Humanity

Heaven influences Earth, which influences Humanity, which influences Heaven...

I thought it was fascinating, since those last few months I've been in this quest to understand how I could live connected to both Heaven and Earth and be a meeting point for the two energies. I've always been very sensitive to color and a great believer in color's power over our moods and energy, as well as our desire for different colors depending on how we're feeling, but this was an especially specific example! 

The shawl is slow going since I'm not used to all this math, and I'm also knitting it first in a $4 acrylic yarn to make sure I like the result. The madelinetosh gets damaged by repeated frogging :) But so far I'm happy! :) 

Also, Spring (or should I say Summer?) is here, yay! 

A historic day!

As of today, I am down to just ONE WIP!!!! This hasn't happened since my first project 4 years ago, and I am using all my willpower to resist casting on something else right this minute. I have to think about what I want to start, considering that this next month is going to be insane, with my one woman show coming up + The Tempest as well, and moving and submitting my visa... 

Pattern: Bridgewater by Jared Flood

Yarn: Hedgehog Fibres Merino Lace (disc.) in Pheasant and Vengeance

I'm super happy with my last FO above, a year and half in the making (that border was looooong!), and now I am tempted to start a new design I have in mind, using three wonderful colors of madelinetosh that I've been wanting to use together ever since I got them, but I'm afraid I won't really have the availability to take my time with it in the next few months... 

Look at those, aren't they scrumptious???

So I think for now I'll just be toiling away on my scarf, that has also been in my WIP pile for a couple of years :) ! I do have a few orders from friends I could get started on (among which a pirate baby jumper and some My little pony socks), but I would need to buy the yarn and I don't want to do that until I move ! :) I am trying desperately to knit up my stash before I have to send half of it back to France in July.... 

Pattern: Wexford by Leila Raabe

Yarn: Filatura di Crosa superior

Why do I always forget how much I dislike knitting scraves? Thank God this picture is from two years ago and I'm a little more advanced than that! Alright, so back to it I go... :) 

Pattern Giveaway

**Scroll down to see the winners!**

To celebrate the release of my second pattern, Soleado, I am giving away 2 copies of the pattern for free!

You have until Friday April 10th to leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite thing about springtime (mine is the bright colors everywhere!), at which time I will randomly choose two winner to send the pattern to.

Soleado comes in three sizes, S, M and L, and is knitted using stranded colorwork. The yarn I used to design the mitts is Koigu Premium Merino, and let me tell you the colors are incredible!

Edit: 

And the winners are n°4 and n°6, Yarngiraffe and Nora!

Thanks to all for participating, I will be in touch with the winners shortly to send them the pattern :)

Skyline

Hurray! My first pattern is finally available as a kit through The Yarn Company's webstore ! It was designed with New York in mind specifically the Chrysler building, that is my favorite skyscraper. The Verdant Gryphon Taxi and Bad Girl colorways go wonderfully well together and were a pleasure to knit :) I am so happy with the result, and I think it's just the right amount of challenging to keep one interested, with some long stockinette rows in between for mindless knitting :)

Here is the Ravelry pattern page, if you want to see the specs ;)

Here are some finished pictures:

Pattern: Skyline

Yarn: The Verdant Gryphon Traveller in Taxi and Bad Girl

And just because, here's a sneak peak of my next pattern, Soleado, that will be available to buy on Ravelry :)