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Find Your Fade - A Nova Scotia Memory Shawl

Whenever I travel to a new place, my tradition is to buy a special skein of yarn to knit a pair of socks with from the local yarn store. I love seeing the different yarn stores and how they operate.  When we were planning our trip to Nova Scotia, one of the first things I did was look up different yarn stores to visit. I quickly realized that there were so many great options and it would be impossible to choose just one. I also realized that buying yarn for socks from four different yarn stores was a little ridiculous - I already have too many pairs of hand-knit socks! I needed a larger project, one that could combine many different skeins and show them all off. I have always wanted to knit the find your fade shawl, designed by Andrea Mowry, but I could not justify buying 7 skeins of yarn for one shawl and my stash of leftovers is not coordinated enough to stash dive for it. This trip was the perfect excuse, I could visit many yarn stores, buy 1-2 skeins from each in the same colou...

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