The VL Shawl is the largest canvas in the VL Crochet Collection, and it uses all that space to let the fiber combination do something genuinely striking. The suri in the upper portion of the shawl has a lightness and halo that photograph beautifully and move in a way all their own, but once the DK variegated section begins at the hem, the whole character of the piece shifts into something more textured and richer in depth, anchored in a way the suri never is. That contrast be

There is a moment in the VL Shawl when the fabric shifts. You work through the upper section in suri, with its soft, haloed quality that wraps you up like a cloud which is hard to capture just how soft it is in a photograph. And then the DK variegated section begins, and the whole character of the piece changes. More textured, richer in color, anchored in a way the suri section is not. The contrast between the two is the whole point, and it is genuinely striking. Shawls are o