Pourquoi

One of the things that products and services are supposed to do are fix a "pain point" for the people who buy them...so that electric kettle that boils water in just a few minutes, while it performs the same function as the old fashioned one on your stove, could entice you to buy it if your "pain point" is the time it takes to boil water for tea or instant coffee...

What does that have to do with knitting?

One of my "pain points" in knitting is that funny little hump that crescent shawls sometimes get.  So many factors play into if the hump will block out or stick around forever...the yarn, how tightly you knit, how quickly or slowly increases are added, where they are added.

In my never-ending search for a crescent that would solve those problems for all knitters...I approached the problem backwards.  How could I make that hump worse?  Maybe those things could tell me how to make it better...then inspiration struck.  Instead of just making it worse, why not make it a feature.

How the shawl got her name:

Pourquoi Stories, porquoi means why in French, are also known as origin stories and include Australian Aboriginal dreamtimes stories, Alamat or legend stories from the Phillippines and Tinga Tinga Tales from African Cultures. They explain why certain animals are the way they are, for example why a tiger has stripes, a snake has no legs or the camel has a hump.

 

This shawl is made from one skein of Melilla Fingering Weight yarn from Cascade Yarns on US 6 (4mm) needles and starts with a small garter tab and ends with a fancy picot bind off (with a few beads thrown in for added weight at the bottom.)

You can get it now in my Ravelry Store!

In other knitting news, I am playing along in the NaKnitMo group on Ravelry.  My goal is to knit 70,000 stitches in the month of November and get a few things off my needles before the holiday knitting rush starts!  If you have WiPs you need to get off the needles, maybe you would like to join us?

Happy Knitting!

~M