The Shusui Shrug by Susanne Sommer, I am seriously obsessed with this pattern! I have done Brioche just enough to understand the concept. I by no means am an expert. Â This shawl/shrug is changing that rapidly.
I first heard of this pattern on the Wool Work Shop youtube podcast. Â The construction is very unique, Â it has a combination of brioche and garter stitch. Â Susanne has also provided a youtube video for the set up. That was a huge benefit for me. I started this shrug several times. Not because it was so hard but rather I had color combo issues. Â I strongly advise totally different color choices for your light and dark. Really, like colors that you don’t even think match.
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Wollmeise PinBall Wizard and PotzBlitz |
This was my first choice. I ordered this yarn specifically for this project. I was thinking summer trees turning into fall trees. The tone of the colors is much too similar. also having the color variations it’s too jumbled to see the design of the pattern.
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Knit Picks Hawthorn Speckle Cosmic and Italian Ice |
This was the second combo.
The colors are again too similar once knit up in the pattern, too much the same tone. You couldn’t really see the pattern.
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Knitpicks Hawthorne Kettle Dyed and Speckle BLackBird and Cosmic |
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Loving this combo!!!!I |
I’m working away, ticking off all the repeats in the first section. I am using the Knit Companion app, I like to for any pattern that has multiple charts or instructions. I have the paid version and it is well worth it. I like that I can create new pages with my chosen parts of the pattern, really letting me focus on the immediate instructions. Â As an example I pulled the repeat of rows R3-6 out of the section on Page 2 to of the pattern, originally this section has rows R1-6. Then I added in colored highlights to make it very clear which were light colored rows and which were dark.
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A snippet of the pattern, in the app, so you can see what I mean. |
The app enables so many other things. A row counter, a highlighter with many color choices, a pop-up legend and notes section, row bars you can move along as you go, so many I couldn’t possibly cover them all. Check out the Knit Companion app. It’s so good.