Autumn Transition Night Lights Shawl

Autumn has cometh. The leaves are turning, I had to add the wool blanket to my bed... I love it. Perfect weather for knitting and wearing knits!

(I know, I know, it’s going to be 80 this weekend, but for a moment it was autumn.)

This is the Drea Renee Knits / Andrea Mowry Night Lights shawl, a stretched out triangle shawl that I've been working on over the past month or so. 

The design is knit sideways, increasing up to the widest part of the triangle and then decreasing back down. It uses slipped stitches and a checkerboard patterning that highlights using higher contrast colors together. 

It's got lovely i-cord edges built in for a neat finish at the edges.

The pattern is the cousin to the Day and Night cowl I made Tim earlier this year, which uses the same stitch pattern. 

The shawl uses a combination of DK and worsted weight yarns... I pulled a fun combination, including a deeeeep stash yarn: a beautifully hand-dyed yarn I picked up in New Zealand in, oh, 2014. I remember picking it up out of a basket outside a shop; I can't remember what town! 

It's Creative Yarns Hand Dyed Aran wool, and the colorway is gorgeous fall combination of maroon, deep purple, greens, yellows, orangey peach, brown and a bit of hot magenta. I love the rich colors. 

I combined it with a beautiful olive-y green DK-weight mystery wool yarn I picked up at my local secondhand craft supply store, The Makery. I have 4 cakes of this yarn, and used less than two on this shawl, so expect to see more of it in the future...

I really love my Night Lights! I love the size of it- long tails to wrap around my neck easily, deep point to cover that triangle of neck and chest not always covered by my coat or jacket. 

And it pairs perfectly with my autumn staple, my corduroy Shoalhaven Shacket.