Free Yarn

I am a complete sucker for free yarn. I am a member of Charlotte Knitting Guild and at the last meeting, a member had done a stash clean-out and brough a box of yarn to give away. I decided to take a peak, and right on top was a kit with three skeins of purple merino laceweight wool with a simple shawl pattern. You know I love purple, and this was not quite the same shade as the purple cotton shawl I am working on, so I grabbed it.

Since I also love to start a new project immediately, no matter how many UFO's I have in my knitting bag, I started the shawl that same night. It is a standard triangle shawl done in garter stitch, but this one is knit from corner to corner. After a few dozen rows I got bored and decided I had to do SOMETHING. Hmmmmm....so I found some pretty purplish gray size 8 beads, by teeny tiny crochet hook used for attaching beads to the yarn, and am adding a bead to the final stitch of the increase row, giving me a subtle beaded border for the bottom of the shawl. (Every other row is an increase row to get the shape for the shawl). And no, I did not frog the whole thing so the first 12 inches would have the border...figure I'll thread yarn with the beads when I am done and sew or crochet beads to that section.

I still have the purple cotton shawl on the needles, one wool sock to go for my son, and am working on a khaki cotton shrug for fall (it is in the 90's right now and hard to conceive of wearing that thing). But this way, I have lots of things to knit to keep from getting bored!!!