In Ireland there are so many sorts of rain, and so many ways to describe the wetness. At one end of the scale there’s the soft day, where the rain’s so light and stealthy that you never see a raindrop and yet end up damp all over. After a week or two of this barely-rain you’re still not actually wet wet, but still suspect that you’ve become a fertile medium for moss. At the other end of the rain scale it can be lashing, pelting, pouring, hammering - or the weirdly threatening raining forks and knives.
Here’s a shawl that celebrates the extremes of the rain. It starts with those heavy raindrops that leave you soaked to the skin in moments. The weather clears a bit, to just a soft day. And we end up with an edging of raindrops glistening in the emerging sunlight.
Yarn options
Silk kits:
1 x 100gr/ 400m skein of 100% mulberry silk
1 x 50gr/ 400m skein of mohair fluff ( 64% kid mohair, 36% silk) or suri fluff (65% baby suri, 35% silk)
DEEP kits:
1 x 100gr/ 400m skein of Caitin DEEP (50% baby yak, 50% silk)
1 x 50gr/ 400m skein of yak fluff ( 42% baby alpaca 13%, fine merino, 10% yak, 35% silk)
Colourways
Silk colourways
Pale yarns
Snowcloud: a very pale silvery grey
Silver the seas: a soft blue-grey
We're so far from shore now: a pale sea-green-grey
Almost rose: a soft warm muted pink
Softer weather: a pale soft greige
Bright yarns
Pollen: a bright, warm yellow
Peony: a rich pink
Pool Splash: a zingy teal-edged blue
Seaglass: sparky greens
Blackcurrant Fizz: juicy purple
Rich yarns
Orb: an intensely saturated deep blue
Gilded: rich deep gold
Evergreen: deep teal
After the bonfire: A deep rusty-purple-wine
DEEP colourways
Lichen - acid green
Bronze - deep, golden metallic
Biscuit Factory - a warmer, gingery brown
Vampire - deep cool red
Aubergine - a very dark warm purple
Dark Orb - deep saurated blue
Lake Moon - a deep teal
A Forest - dark cool green
Kits include all the yarn you need, plus a copy of the pattern.
