Way back in January 2021 I finished the ADVENTuresome Wrap by Ambah O’Brien. Here’s a link to that FO post.

I enjoyed knitting it, I loved the toy themed advent yarns from Cookston Crafts, however it was enormous so has not been worn the last 2 years. The 4 ply superwash yarn isn’t warm enough for winter, it was too cumbersome to wear on dog walks on warmer days and I don’t go anywhere that wearing a shawl with evening wear would happen.

Sooooo….as I was packing up my winter woollies in their storage bags I thought I needed to make a decision on this shawl rather than packing it away again. The quickest option would have been to frog from the bound off edge but I like the colours there, but wasn’t so struck on the ones near the middle. (See yellow scribbled line)

So I picked up stitches on either side of the colours I’d remove and then started to undo the central section. Once removed I tinked back one row of the grey section and then held both sides right sides facing and Kitchener stitched it back together.

I am really pleased with how it turned out and think it will now get some wear on spring and late summer days…let’s face it I live in the Highlands of Scotland this could get worn in the mid-summer too! The grey joined line is a bit thinner looking because I pulled the stitches a bit too tightly but overall I don’t think anyone I’ll notice.

Colours in it are now:

• Moomin
• Sylvanian family
• Barrie
• Care bears
• Tiny tears
• Cabbage Patch Dolls
• Furbies
• Buzz Lightyear
• Ghostbuster slime
• Rubix cube
• Mr Frosty
• My Little Pony
• Magna Doodle
• Frozen Elsa
• Game boy
• Bree (not in the advent I switched out Power Rangers)

Colours removed:

• Teddy Ruxpin
• Teletubbies
• Monchichi monkey
• Tracy Island
• Ninja Turtles
• Batman
• Star Wars
• Scalextrics

I’ll add the removed yarns to my Habitation throw, so they won’t go to waste.