Color Affection (do I really need a link to the pattern - doesn't everyone know this one?) Yarn - Sundara Petite Sock Yarn, discontinued colorways: Driftwood, Bing, and Dark Side of the Moon. It's almost finished. Just a couple more (endless) rows on the border. I really love the colors in this. It looks kind of blah in the photo (I think because the khaki color is so similar to the upholstery on my chair!) - but I really think it will be lovely when finished.
Aranami Shawl. Yarn: Plucky Knitter Primo Fingering in (from top to bottom) Glacier, Grey Goose, Narraganset Gray, and High Cotton. I need to find another color for the top two rows and then I will be finished with this one! I had originally picked a blue as my final color. When the skeins were lined up together I liked it with the other colors. When knit up - not so much. Only three weeks until the Plucky retreat - I'm sure to find the perfect color then.
And yet another shawl. For someone who never knit a shawl before last year, I sure seem to have caught the bug! This is Skywalker by Laura Nelkin. It's used in her Craftsy class, Knit This: Mastering Lace Shawls. This is my first lace shawl. I'm slowly moving out of my garter stitch phase. The thing about lace is it looks like utter crap until you block it. I find this both intriguing and frustrating. I was worried that some of my yarn overs looked wonky, but Laura assured me they were OK and they would even out in the blocking. How cool is that? I posted a question to the class about my concern - she asked if I could upload a picture. Then, after looking at the photo, she said it looked like it would block out fine. Sometimes technology is so cool. (other times, not so much - like when my credit card got hacked last week).
Well, that's it for today. I've been thinking a lot about my knitting stages of grief - but more on that next time.
