Remember in an earlier post (this past summer) when I talked about making the Figure Eight Shawl with Cherry Tree Hill laceweight? Even showed a photo of one of the middle figure 8 motifs?
Well, I made three motifs and one long side and they do not fit together. No way, no how, never. Obviously I sewed and blocked the motifs improperly. and with than fine yarn, they will remain forever motifs in my yarn drawer!
Never fear, however, I still have enough yarn to knit a nice rectangular shoulder shaw. And if I run short I CAN unravel the side piece I knitted. I am knitting this new project on size 7 needles using the basic feather and fan motif.
I started this shawl just before I left for a week's Christmas trip. My choices for knitting on this trip were this shawl and the baby blanket for my expected third grandchild. The blanket is halfway done and so is heavy in my lap, plus the CottonTots yarn is shedding badly. So....the shawl it was. Below is a photo of how much I got knitted in the car and then three days of lovely screened-porch sitting at our beach house. Since it was VERY quiet down there, I got LOTS of knitting done!
Knitting with wool in the summer warning: Look carefully at the middle of the shawl section pictured at the top. Do you see it? It is called "inadvertent hand felting". Moist hands and warm temperatures and obsessive clutching of the knitted object WILL felt it! When I noticed it, I thought about frogging back to the spot, but decided it just added interest and texture!
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