Restless Knitter

As I said, over the weekend I started two shawls. On Friday evening, I started the Rose Trellis Shawl with some Cherry Tree Hill Merino Lace that I’d bought last fall.

I love variegated yarns and even though it’s hard to find patterns that work well with them, I just keep wanting to buy more and more. If I had already used the CTH in the stash, I would have been comfortable buying the yarn that I wanted a couple of weekends ago. Once this is done, I can buy more!

On Sunday, I started the Secret of Chrysopolis with KnitPicks Alpaca Cloud.

Unfortunately, this is going to be ripped. From what little I can see, this is going to be a beautiful shawl but Alpaca Cloud isn’t the yarn for it, at least not for me. I’ve gone down to a US2 and it still looks too airy. I do want to make this someday but it will have to wait until I have a more appropriate yarn.

I’ve been saying that one of these days, I want to try illusion knitting. I need to find something that my 20 year old daughter will like since I plan to incorporate it into one of her scarves. Suggestions are welcome.

Remember when you were in grade school and your assignment was to write a report on My Summer Vacation? My reports were mostly boring because we didn’t do anything special during the summer. But My Weekend? It was another fun one. Picture heavy so I’m putting it after the bump

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