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I did swatch for this shawl, I swear. But I swatched to work out the stitch pattern and only afterwards realized that I should also have swatched for the increases, since it’s not obvious how to add the increases without distorting the pattern. I drew it out so (so, so) many times on paper but it’s never quite the same as having it on the needles. So I did a little swatch attached to the body of my shawl and once I’d figured out my increases I frogged it again so that I could get on with the full thing. Melodeon shawl, originally published in October 2019, came about because I wanted a pattern I could recommend to brioche beginners. If a shawl is all-over brioche then you often have to do a bunch of brioche increases all close to each other right at the start of the body. Some knitters can power through those fiddly starts but they can be off putting for knitters who aren't so confident in their brioche skills, so Melodeon starts with a stockinette body and the brioche comes in later. I have a bunch of patterns that need writing up at the moment and progress has been slower than I’d like. Life happens. And also I don’t exactly knit simple things! Slow progress means not a lot of exciting social media content, so instead of a beautifully posed photo here’s a sneak peak off the blocking mats of one of the shawls in my pattern writing queue. It’s an AFO. I’ve been teaching my daughter to knit and she’s now up to purling. Her first project was a garter stitch scarf for Miss Pinky the rainbow alpaca (her favourite soft toy) and now on the needles is a stockinette scarf for her (or perhaps a little blanket for her second favourite soft toy, depending on how long the enthusiasm for stockinette lasts). Blue with unicorns seemed to be my theme at the moment. Perhaps my eight year old is having an influence?