This stole design features a gradient handspun yarn. This is a 3 ply handspun from fibre which has been hand-dyed in a long colour gradient. Fibres are from Allons-Y! FiberArts.

If you do not spin, you can substitute a commercial fingering weight colour gradient, a set of miniskeins in a colour gradient, or even a solid coloured yarn. This stole takes 500-600m of fingering weight yarn. The sample is shown in 150 gm/500m of 3 ply handspun.

This stole is worked in one piece, starting with the border, then body, and final border, making full use of this gradient yarn.

Both charts as well as written instructions are included. The skill level is easy/intermediate.

“April Rose” rhododendron is an extremely hardy variety which blooms very early in the spring, usually late April into early May. The purple-pink flowers are proliferous and slightly fragrant. We have a large specimen just across from the back deck at the entrance to the garden pathway through our Japanese maple “forest”. It is a welcome sign that spring has definitely arrived.