I started my
Spring Things Shawl on 4th May. I joined the
For me?! knitalong and was looking for a lacy shawl pattern and found this one. This led to me joining the
Spring Things knitalong as well. I'm a complete knitalong addict. Anyway, as I said I started the shawl on 4th May and wasn't too happy with it - I just didn't seem to have the pattern right. I took it to last Tuesday's Stitch 'n Bitch and persisted with it on the Wednesday morning but on Thursday decided enough was enough and ripped it back. I started again on Friday and despite dropping a stitch and having to go back a full pattern repeat on Saturday afternoon I have actually managed to make it to 9 pattern repeats of the upper body pattern.
The shawl looks quite small although it does stretch out quite a lot. I've decided to knit 17 repeats of the upper body pattern instead of 13 because I am using 3.25mm needles instead of the recommended 3.75mm ones and feel it may turn out very small otherwise.
I was originally going to dye the shawl once I'd finished it (I'm using undyed Blue Faced Leicester/nylon lace weight yarn) but I love the creamy naturallness of the yarn so much I'm going to leave it as it is. I've also found some lovely cream glass beads which look great with it!
I absolutely love the pattern and have already been considering the yarn for my next one.
