The Old Shale Shawl is finished and awaiting to be blocked. I promise it will happen some day!
The pattern by Amanda Clark is free and really easy to follow. I’m very happy with the finished object and it took me only 4 years… yep.
Short after the Nurmilintu Shawl was cast on, because I just couldn’t wait to try that pretty yarn. It’s Natural Dye Studio’s Dazzle, a British wool, 100% Bluefaced Leicester, in delicate shades of blues, greens and purples – very soft.
The first section before the lace is done
but obviously not everything could go well…
Sigh
See what happened?
That’s about 3/5 from the start. Mep
Whatever. It’ll get a lifeline (because this yarn is very slippery and would unravel to the next rows before I could blink) and hopefully I can recover from there. Not tonight though.
By the way, yes, I love blue and green, if you were wondering.
The weekend was overall quite productive and some tidy up was done, which leaves one with such a good feeling!
Some vintage yarn purchase also happened, because really, I need to build back some of my “collection”. And some antique silver – my new interest since I read some blog posts on silver items! Contagious. But expensive, so only done in wee bits. The best buy was a spoon with my initial engraved (well not mine originally but we share that letter), so now I feel very decadent to enjoy yoghurt with an antique silver spoon (1853) – that is when it arrives!
How was your weekend?
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