FO Alert: Powder Wrap

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 Powder Wrap by Casapinka

Berroco Ultra Alpaca in Starry Night Mix (3.3 skeins - 725 yds)

Cast on: 3/28/21

Cast off: 5/9/21

After discovering how much I love worsted weight shawls and watching a ton of people in Casapinka's facebook group knitting this, when I needed a break from socks, it was an easy choice. 


I made the biggest "design element" of my knitting career on this project. Half way through the cables, I picked this up one day, and pretty much forgot the difference between right and left. I swapped the direction of allllll of the cables, and didn't notice for a few rows. I decided to go with it and am surprisingly happy with the way they turned out. I did switch back to the correct direction for the last cable row to make the transition to the ribbing a little neater, but it was a nice feeling to embrace my mistake and turn it into a feature that makes my wrap unique. 


This has taken me so long to post because blocking and taking pictures kept not happening. It's so big and strangely shaped,  that I washed it and laid it on the mats with only a few pins. I really had no idea what shape I should block it into,  so I decided to let it do its own thing and I'll still be able to wrap up in the giant,  warm squishiness. 


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