29 May 2010
Orange Citron
Materials: 1 skein Knit Picks Alpaca Cloud (100% Baby Alpaca) in Cha Cha. Size 5 needles. Pattern: Citron.
Time: A month.
Cost: $4 USD.
An alternative title for this piece would perhaps be The Exception. As a rule, orange is not my color, and I don’t wear shawls. But I was making a Knitpicks order, and saw this yarn on clearance for $4. One skein would be barely enough to make a small scarfy thing, and the orange was just such a happy, cheerful color — I just couldn’t pass it up. Flattering colors be damned — this is the anti-February-blues hue.
I’m also not a shawl person, fashion-wise. They’re not my thing, and if I could make something like this, I would want to pin it up on my wall and display it like an exotic butterfly under glass. But Citron is a pattern that can pass as a scarf, which makes me happy — I wear some sort of scarf most of the year, and this is a particularly cheery, non-bulky one to smush up beneath a drab winter coat.
I even got a chance to wear it when it snowed a couple of weeks ago.