This yarn has been in my stash for a while, and I’ve pondered what it might become…only one skein, so how to make the most of it? And then the Matcha Mood pattern showed up, and I think it’s a perfect match!
05/26/2025
What a clever pattern that uses the same charts to make a progressing diagonal at the ends of this shawl! I’ve been weighing my big ball of yarn after each 24-round chart repeat so that I have a good idea of how much to budget for the other end of lace work and for the middle section of plain ridges.
10/19/2025
I started this in the spring as an “in between other projects” project, and then it got too hot to want to knit this warm and fluffy shawl….so it sat and waited for cooler weather.
The yarn I chose (Revolutions by Universal Yarn) comes in one large cake with some color gradient (see picture). I wanted to manage my yarn budget so as not to run out before I finished the project because this was a gift and I didn’t want to have to either find more or rip out the second lace section to shorten the middle section. The lace chart is worked for 5 repeats, and this used 78gm of the 210gm cake of yarn. A reasonable budget would be to save 80ish gm for the second lace section and then use the remaining 50gm for the center section. The pattern called for working the 4 rows of section 2 a total of 19 times, but I had plenty of yarn left, so I kept going for a total of 28x (a total of 112 rows). I weighed the remaining yarn and had 86gm left for the second lace section--cool! I could have knit more in the center section, but I didn’t want this shawl to be too long. After finishing the second lace section, 29.5 gm remains. There was a color shift in the yarn, and this makes me think that maybe the dark and light colors are of different weights? Otherwise, I can’t really explain why so much was left over.
The finished shawl weighs 180.4gm = 552 yds
(612yds/200gm from the ball band)
The remaining yarn had an abrupt color shift where the yarn was knotted together, so I separated that into 2 balls:
light ball: 21.2gm = 64.8yds
dark ball: 8.3gm = 25.4yds
TOTAL: 29.5gm = 90.3yds
Final measurements after wash and block:
24in wide x 72in long
