It’s impossible not to be inspired by the vibrant colors and unique marling effect of Plied Yarns. When it launched last year, I realized I couldn’t just choose one color to knit with – I wanted to try a bunch! I picked out a fun four-color combo for the Greydient shawl by Jana Huck, and I love how it turned out! The slow color shifts of the yarn turned a very stark geometric design into a softer effect with more depth of color. Because the Plied palette of colors play together so well, I was able to choose four different colorways that were all plied with grey in them. I like to describe the finished shawl as “if you got a graffiti artist to spray paint a picture of a shawl on a concrete wall.”
I did modify the pattern a bit to only use one skein of each color, and simply ended my shawl a few repeats earlier in the final section. The shawl is still a good size. If you wanted to complete it as written, you would need two skeins of your CC3. The colors I used are: Lady Day, Poe, Webb, and Vacants to Value.
Greydient by Jana Huck
Color Combos
Teddy picked out some four color combos to inspire you! These would also work for The Exchange Scarf!
Yarn details:
- 100% non-superwash wool
- 2-ply woolen spun
- fingering weight
- 215 yd/197 m per 1.75 oz/50 g skein
