Let's see, I finished the yellow triangle shawl, but it's very small. I didn't know how much yarn I had so I guess I could have made it...twice as big? oops...now I can make two...The Aubrey pattern is ok, too, but for me one point of the shawl is longer. If I had to guess, I'd say that when you K2tog at the end of a row it pulls on the yarn, making it lop-sided? I'll see if blocking works. But hey, it was a fun project.
I received my $25 bag of yarn from ebay, 10 hanks of 190meters of Salvia yarn, merino sock wool. It made me smile every time I looked at it until I tried to wind a hank into a ball. Now I have half a ball of yarn and a giant tangle of insanity.... I need to look up hints on the right way to untangle a hank. Something tells me maybe I read something by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee?
I finally visited Yarnia, a local yarn shop (or LYS) on Division, last week, and I want to sign up for a sock knitting class soon. I have a feeling turning a heel might be something I'd need to watch, rather than figure out on my own.
So it's Sunday night and I don't want the evening to end because this weekend feels too short. I've been drinking tea and watching Portlandia and doing laundry all day, but all too soon I'll have to go to bed and get up at five a.m. and go to work. The only good thing about that is I will bring a book on lace patterns and try to make up my own shawl pattern!
So this weekend was good but short, just like my first shawl is cute but tiny (and lop-sided) and sometimes good yarn goes to waste before it can be used, but I have a book of lace patterns to keep me busy and somewhat sane.
...Pics later...
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