The Sunday Morning Shawl is now live under the “Patterns” tab of this website and on Ravelry!
There are so many special things for me wrapped up in this design. The yarn was purchased with a dear friend at Black Mountain Yarn Shop in the Fall of 2019, before the pandemic, before so many things that I never could have dreamed. At the time, it was a huge splurge and the Woolfolk used here is so luxurious. I hadn’t started designing patterns when it was purchased but I had all of these ideas in my head for what these colors could be together and it was a kind of leap of faith to really invest in the dream of designing.
When I finally sat down to work on this project, I tried out a few different design ideas,. But this winter, I really just needed a project in my life that was incredibly cozy, incredibly simple, and soothing no matter what the day held. Its name comes from the Commodores song “Easy Like Sunday Morning” and I think that encapsulates it perfectly. I also love that, because of its generous size, it can look so different depending on how you drape it. More stripes! More color! Less color - a mishmash of the two.
I love to include one new skill that a knitter may not have tried in each pattern that I write, and in this pattern it is the applied i-cord edging which is knit on the shawl after it is complete. It adds such a nice, finished edge to it and really ties it all together. In this design, I did the edging in turquoise, but in the pattern it is written for color B (in this case, the tan/khaki) just to make sure you have enough yarn to complete it. (It would be SO sad to get halfway through and run out of yarn).
This month I am also, amazingly, celebrating my first year of work as a knitting designer. It has been a steep learning curve for me both personally and entering the “business-y” side of the craft world for the first time in over five years and I have a lot more to say about it, but for now I’ll just leave you with a celebratory discount code “WHATAYEAR” which will get you 50% off any patterns here on my website or on Ravelry, just enter at checkout.
Thank you for all of the love on this design and for my journey as a designer! I can’t wait for much more creativity, self-expression, and knitting love to come.