Nightsongs

This past summer, I visited a yarn shop in Seoul called Banul and bought some beautiful indigo fingering weight yarn. It’s a cotton-silk blend called Screen that I planned to use for a shawl, I don’t remember the price exactly but it was fairly cheap for the 10 balls I bought.

I was going to make the dragon wings shawl, and first I tried making a swatch with only 1 strand. I know the point of a lace shawl is to have a fine guage, but instead decided to hold two strands together for a thicker yarn (that is still fairly light). After looking through Ravelry, I noticed that a friend of mine was making Nightsongs (Ravelry link) and decided to give it a try.

The pattern is not very difficult, but it can be confusing. There’s another chart that someone else made to supplement the original pattern that helped a lot.

As you can see, there’s currently a cat hanging around my apartment (I’m cat-sitting), so I couldn’t do a proper blocking on the edges. Aside from that, the yarn took the blocking really well, I love how it turned out. I did 8 repeats of the pattern, and to finish I soaked it in water with detergent for about 20 minutes before washing and rinsing. I had to rinse a few times over because, as someone else warned me, it takes a while to get all the extra indigo dye out.