Marley.

Back in the fall, I had the idea that I wanted a big, brioche shawl in a neutral-ish color. I wound up at the Shennendoah Fiber Festival with a friend and we found the yarn. Low contrast, pink and cream, neutral enough, speckled in the best way… just perfect. I snapped it up and with encouragement from another dear friend cast it on a few weeks later.

I really enjoyed knitting it, but other things got in the way. Holiday knitting, traveling, and that nagging feeling that this shawl was going to take forever. After a couple of months, I was only about fifteen percent in.

I’ll be honest, it may have been particularly slow because I spent a lot of time just looking at it. This was one of those times when I was utterly entranced by two colors paired together. The speckles and variation in the colorways really is everything. But alas, I put it away again.

And then… as I mentioned in my last post, something just clicked. I was obsessively listening to a book series and I just flat out put some stitches down. It took me about two weeks once I really got going and…

Here she is in all her squishy glory. The shawl turned out to be massive; it’s well over six feet across the top. I was looking for a brioche schlanket, and friends, this is it.

This is Marley by Andrea Mowry, knit in 29 Bridges Studio Sock Single. I used Coral Reef (cream) for the main color and Sugar Cookie (pink) for the contrast color.

I knit it exactly to pattern. It’s a pretty simple pattern, easy to memorize and very well written. I can’t stop gushing! It’s just so stinking pretty.