The Dove Shawl is finally an FO...

I love it...and so does the Munch. She even kissed it (everyone together now---awwww!)

I was careful to bind off extremely loosely with this shawl since I wanted to block the heck out of it. The original pattern maintains a lot of the pre-blocked egg carton-y look to the pattern but I wanted it to be fairly flat. Looking at it here in the pictures, I think I could have blocked it even more than I did.

I didn't change the pattern other than to knit a few less repeats. It was a super-easy pattern; just one row repeated over and over with a few increases for shaping. I would say this would be an excellent beginner lace project since there are some very obvious visual clues in the pattern to keep you on track.

As for the stash update...I've been looking into a few ways to use up a lot of the single skeins of wool I have sitting around and i'm thinking about the Pom Pom Rug in Craftivity (link is to a project page in Ravelry). I think it would be perfect for Munchkin's room (or yet to be named new baby). It would require a TON of pom-poms though....

who knows...maybe.

in the meantime, I'm still plowing through a lot of the abandoned wips that have been cluttering up the yarn room. I'm nearly done with a pair of Monkey Socks (in some awesome Chewy Spaghetti yarn) as well as that darn Bobbles bag. I'm on a roll, baby!!

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I usually don't get much knitting done over the weekend and this past weekend was certainly no exception... I'm usually pretty amazed at how much I get done during a weekday even though I spend a good amount of time playing with and chasing the munchkin but weekends are a black hole of knitting. I think I got one row done on the Dove Shawl.

Its coming along..but its at that really unphotographable stage so, instead of the crappy picture I took of it today that doesnt show any detail whatsoever, I'll show you a cute picture of the Munch I took during today's walk around the neighborhood:

awww!!!

Back to the Shawl...I think I'm 12 repeats out of 17 in at this point and its still a really enjoyable knit, despite being the same two rows repeated over and over. This enjoyableness, however, has not helped me meet my goal of having it off the needles by the time my first Year of Lace kit arrives later this week. (the site seems to be unavailable at the moment but I'm sure it will be up again soon.) There may still be a small portion of myself laboring under the delusion I can finish a shawl in a day and a half but it was smacked around by the portion of me that sat and read an entire book yesterday instead of knitting. Maybe I can speed knit the rest of today and tomorrow.

Speaking of shape*, I signed up for Sock Wars III. It will be my first time but I figure with my (usually) ample knitting time during the day, I might be able to make a serious go at it. I certainly have enough sock yarn stash to be able to find something to use for whatever gauge the pattern is... I think my only drawback is that I have quite small feet--so I'll be at a real disadvantage if I am assigned Shaq. (I'm not sure he's signed up yet though...)

* Does that line in the craftmatic adjustable bed commercial annoy the piss out of anyone else? Its, quite possibly, the worst transition in all of recorded history--and I'm including all of John Madden's Monday Night Football commentary in there. Despite my hatred of that line (or, more likely, because of it), I do use the phrase a lot...

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