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To brioche or not to brioche: brioching is a verb, right?!

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  I’ll admit that I was late to the Shawlography party. I saw all the posts and the hype and thought I wasn’t going to bother. I was trying to get the right yarn to correct my Find your Fade shawl (which I’ll save for another post). At the very last minute, I got swept up in it all. I saw everyone’s beautiful yarn combinations and started putting together my own options. I figured I had enough skeins that I could do it from stash. I ALMOST did as well!  I had bought a whole bunch of beautiful skeins from Countess Ablaze in her closing down sale. I also had two skeins that I had bought from her shop in person years ago. But they were all gloriously dark and moody. I needed something a bit lighter to provide the contrast, so I added in a skein of Fyberspates Vivacious 4ply and created the perfect, sumptuous colour palette. I was ready, and super excited! I managed to start knitting at the end of the first week, so clues 1 and 2 had been posted. I love this way of knitting - so m...