The Wild Peacock Shawl
Start Date: 2 October 2021
Completion Date: 16 October 2021
Yarn used: Schoppel Lace Flower 2ply – 1200m “mittelland”
Pattern: Wild Swan by Anne-Lise Maigaard and Nim Teasdale
The Wild Peacock shawl (named for its colours) is one of my favourite things I’ve ever knitted! This is something I say after everything I knit but I think in this case it may be true. I knitted it for my mum for her birthday.
This was my second lace shawl, knit after the Dragon of the Mist Shawl by the Crazy Lace Lady. I was expecting another month of tedious knitting and losing my place in the pattern, but instead found a simple charted pattern which felt relatively intuitive and had a lot of repeats – meaning I didn’t have to check each stitch as I completed it! This knit up so quickly, and watching the yarn change colours as I worked was so fun as well. I loved each step of the gradient.
Schoppel Wolle Lace Flower is the most expensive and probably fanciest yarn I’ve ever used. It is so soft, and the gradient is glorious. I’ve still got lots left over for another project! I erroneously listened to Google about yarn cakes and centre pull. This yarn was too fine to pull from the centre and it ended up creating so many knots. Someone has said this is due to the way it was spun, pulling it out backwards makes the fibres all stick together and knot up. Regardless, I’ve learned my lesson!
The Final Product
