
I love the shaping of these shawls. Here's Barbara - imperfections and all, and she's still a beauty. The imperfections are, of course, my mistakes, not the pattern's. The patterns and charts are all written fabulously. It looks like she'll be just right for a little summer cover-up. I worried it would be too small, but I don't think it is. Blocking still continues to amaze/amuse me.
I'm not a fast knitter, plus I had a couple months of down time with the flu, so this one took three months to complete. It really is NOT that time-consuming of a project. I just wasn't knitting much this spring.
Specs:- Began/Finished: March 8 - June 1, 2008
- Needles: Size 6, Addi Turbo circular, 40 in.
- Yarn: Elann.com Endless Summer Connemara - 9 skeins - maybe 8, could have been 7 who knows!**
- Finished Size: 66 in (168 cm) by 26 in (66 cm)
**Edited to Add: Okay - here's the deal. I
THOUGHT I only had 10 skeins of this yarn. I have had it for such a long time, and started so many projects with it which then got frogged, that apparently some of the skeins got placed in different places. For instance - I had most of them in the bag they were mailed in - in my big project bag. Another skein was recently found in a bag that I have some of my stash stored in, and still ANOTHER skein showed up on June 3 - in my knitting basket. I wasn't counting skeins as I used them to knit this shawl, I just started another one as I needed to. I guess that's part of the beauty of these shawls - you knit until you're getting low on yarn, and then put an edge on it, and call it finished. My kind of knitting indeed!