Wednesday 13 April 2011

Mystery shawl

It is not too late to join the Spriteling mystery shawl KAL and there are 2 ways to join - either via ravelry or the socktopus website. You can search on ravelry patterns for spriteling and there is a spriteling mystery shawl KAL group to go with it. The clues come out fortnightly with the second one due on Friday - it runs until sometime in May.

I have to admit this is quite a challenge until you get going and 'into' the pattern and I have used both the chart and instructions to get going. I haven't quite finished the first clue yet as I was struck down by this horrid bug going around and was too ill to knit anything - I am hardly ever too ill to pick up the needles for something!

I did however manage to cast off my Pi shawl yesterday - pics to follow once it is blocked. The yarn was amazing to work with and I shall be casting on more of this soft and fluffy yummyness once I decide what to make. I have loved this Pi shawl even though it was a bit of an experiment - I added a hearts pattern from another Pi shawl I had seen but had a section of plain knitting in there as well (it would have been better with more hearts). Am off to wind my Royal wedding yarn now as I want to get that started soon as well!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Urgh! Hope you're over the icky bug now. Can't believe you're casting on the Royal Wedding Yarn - I can't bear to take mine out of the box, it's so lovely. I just can't bring myself to ruin it - almost to the point of having to buy another skein. I have to admit I'm not that keen on the accompanying pattern, I didn't like the horseshoey bits. I'm going to look for something else to use it on (in theory!) xx