Unsurprisingly, I have a LOT of scrap yarn, leftovers from all the shawls I've made over the years. And I've never really done anything with them.
Sure, there's always the usual scrap blankets that folks make, but that didn't appeal much to me. And just doing a shawl where I just with one color of scrap until it ran out, then moving on to the next color sounded like torture.
My original idea was to do two different scrap colors at once, alternating every two rows, to give it a more cohesive look.
So, I happily trotted up to my giant scrap basket and started pulling things out.
And, like pretty much everything ever, plans got tossed out the window.
I came back with 2 balls of Knit Pick's Bare that I had originally bought for a different pattern that never came to fruition and an entire rainbow's worth of fingering weight scraps.
And with only a vague idea of what I thought it might look like when it was done, I just started knitting.
A month and over 1200 yards of yarn later, this was what I had in my hands.
I gave it the affectionate name of Rainbomb because of how absolutely absurdly big it came out.
I didn't even realize until after I had bound off and really took a look at it.
120 inches, in case you were wondering.
Ten. Bloody. Feet.
HOW DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF?!
Anyway, this shawl wasn't made so much as evolved. I had originally started out with wanting to do 5 rows of each color, but after the first set of red, I didn't think I'd have enough yarn. I was *slightly* worried that it wouldn't be a very big shawl... I know, I know. But I really did worry!
I also ended up changing a lot of the colors I had originally picked out as I spent more time with this shawl.
This was my original lineup of 14 colors.
At the end, I ended up with 17 colors.
Which meant I had 38 ends to weave in.
Yeah, it sucked hard.
But I can't argue with the results.
As for the edging, this is where that gorgeous grey from Knitcraft and Knittery came into play.
I wanted the edging to look like lightning and rain drops. I'm pretty dang happy with how it came out, especially for just kind of throwing some shit into Stitch Fiddle and hoping it came out okay.
Yep, no test knitting for this thing. It was slapped into a project with nearly 500 stitches a row and praying to Henry that it worked because ripping out and redoing all those stitches would have put this project in the burn pile.
The edge pattern was actually supposed to be double this length, but I was just done with this damn thing. As much as I love and adore it, it was definitely getting to the point of being a drag. ESPECIALLY because I just HAD to go and add beads to the bloody thing.
But all that said and done...
...I'm thrilled with the new addition to my collection.
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