Two Firsts

A long time ago, well really,  last May? I think?? I went to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. It was there that I bought some lace weight yarn from Wales. Reflecting on this, the purchase was idiotic, as it would have been easier to go to Wales than Maryland, but I saw it and I had to have it. No amount of rationality came into the equation. At any Sheep and Wool Festival, I am deep into yarn crazy.

I have never knitted lace before and I have never knitted a shawl before. So, why not do two things at once! Oh, and let's make it a Pi shawl too, just to up the anti. This is the Elizabeth Zimmerman Camping Pi Shawl in early September, nearly finished and the day before I ripped it all out, rewound the yarn, and started again, on larger needles. (Take that run-on sentence Grammarly.)

This is the pi shawl two months later cast off of 4.5mm needles but unblocked. The yarn has yet to convince me that it's all going to be worth it.

Three hundred pins later... I exaggerate...but only a little, the shawl looks like this.

Okay, now I can see it. Will I knit lace again? Probably, I have one full skein left over. Will it be any time soon? Probably not, I have several projects in the heap shame that need to be finished first.

Next project? Something that has been sitting in the utility room for nearly 10 months. I need to make room for the newly purchased project that is sitting in the front hall. Rereading myself, I am beginning to think I might have a problem or two.