Now presenting: Stuff I have yet to blog about!
I finished my Swallowtail Shawl this week. I used some chocolate brown Misti Alpaca Lace and size four needles and ended up with a shawl that just barely covers my linebacker-style shoulders. It's a hair over the size it was supposed to be (according to the pattern), and obviously designed for very tiny people, and not those of Norse/German/other-very-large-and-substantial-people ancestry.
I also finished up about 600 yards of two-ply, we'll-call-it-sportweight yarn. Half of it is superwash carded with tussah silk, and the other half is some handpainted Bluefaced Leicester roving from Sweet Georgia Yarns. The skein on the left is what I was aiming for; the one on the right has the BFL portion a little thicker than I desired. Still, I ended up with almost exactly the same amount on each bobbin (4 ounces on each bobbin without a Woolee Winder; that is not too shabby).
I think I'd like to turn this into a nice, crazy shawl. There should be some subtle striping going on, so some variation of feather-and-fan is a very good possibility, something a la this. I should at least have enough to make something bigger than the Swallowtail Shawl, right? Anything's bigger than that. (Maybe I'll give it to Sophie, as she doesn't seem to have inherited my shoulders, being a basset hound and all.)
The final piece for show-and-tell is a very late Christmas present. My goal is simply to have it done before spring. It's going to a friend of mine who is a) weird, and b) appreciates knitting very, very much. (He is in the market for a girlfriend and has expressed interest in having his own personal knitter-girl, so if you'd like to submit an application, please do.) The pattern comes from this site (warning: opens a PDF) and, I must say, is pretty darn boring. Good pattern and all, but I prefer my knitting to be a little less chart-dependent. The recipient will be pleased, when I happen to finish. I'm at the almost-halfway point now.
Thanks to all of you for the feedback you gave on the blanket yarn and congratulations. I'll be keeping the yarn, and I hope to start it tomorrow. This particular Debbie Bliss book should arrive on my stoop in the afternoon.
Tipper @ 8:04 PM * link
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