Plenty of knitting time.
Pincha shawl in a Devon Sun Yarns colour club exclusive set.
This is slightly less than half the scarf it will be. Variegated yarn has its problems and Pincha exists to make the best of it. Short row shaping forms one feather after another and breaks up a variegated colourway quite attractively.
Well, for a certain value of attractive. After my first couple of feathers I was very excited for how this one going to turn out, after about seven I was fairly sure I hated it?
Now I'm up to a few repeats of the full colour sequence it's growing on me again,(and mum coos appreciatively every time she sees it) and I'm looking forward to having the finished scarf to show off. Hopefully that won't take too long, as it's conveniently a very good pattern to take on the go (as long as you make good use of stitch markers so you don't have to keep track of rows too closely). It's even been to visit a host of beautiful feathered friends at Birdland in Bourton-on-the-Water, like this Superb Starling whose plumage puts mine to shame.
It's a fun pattern to actually knit as well - I might even knit another one or two - maybe giant ones like this from Auduraka on Ravelry.
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