Last year, my brother and sister-in-law gifted me a skein of very expensive, very gorgeous
silvery silk yarn. I started making an echo flowers shawl with it, frogged that, and started a
dancing cranes stole. Which I knit, for an eternity. This was actually made worse by the fact that I got far more repeats out of this yarn than anticipated, which speaks volumes about my ability to do math and my pathetic attention span. But a couple weeks ago, I saw the light at the end of the tunnel, and miracles of miracles, the shawl is done. D. O. N. E.
Seriously, waiting for this thing to dry after blocking was the longest 24 hours of my life. It was the culmination of 15 months of guilty looks from the corner it sat in in my room, where it would scream 'Why am I in a cheap ziploc bag? Why aren't you loving me??' Seeing it all pinned out, he love has hit me hard again. The pattern came through ten zillion times better after stretching it out and I am obsessed with following the squiggles and lines running through the stole.
Why yes, wearing soft silk around my neck will make me gape and stare in amazement. Believe it or not this picture was already one of the better ones.. I need to find myself a photographer.
I took these pictures this morning, and I'm not sure if it's the lighting or my camera, but it seriously doesn't do justice to the shininess of the yarn. This one is a little more like it.
Did I mention how much I love the squiggles?
I love them.
Seriously, waiting for this thing to dry after blocking was the longest 24 hours of my life. It was the culmination of 15 months of guilty looks from the corner it sat in in my room, where it would scream 'Why am I in a cheap ziploc bag? Why aren't you loving me??' Seeing it all pinned out, he love has hit me hard again. The pattern came through ten zillion times better after stretching it out and I am obsessed with following the squiggles and lines running through the stole.
Why yes, wearing soft silk around my neck will make me gape and stare in amazement. Believe it or not this picture was already one of the better ones.. I need to find myself a photographer.
I took these pictures this morning, and I'm not sure if it's the lighting or my camera, but it seriously doesn't do justice to the shininess of the yarn. This one is a little more like it.
Did I mention how much I love the squiggles?
I love them.
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