I decided to test-drive the shawl pattern I am doing next. I had two skeins of brightly coloured boucle that I bought to make SOMETHING for my daughter, and I thought it would make an adorable shawl. She doesn't know I'm knitting for her - so far, I've given all my knitting away.
This is the result of about an hour of knitting. It is big enough that I could finish it off and turn it into a knitted kerchief for her, but I want to make the shawl, so I'll keep going.
I alluded to a problem with my beautiful handpainted yarn yesterday. Well, here's a picture...
The background is the yarn I got originally, knit into the prayer shawl. It is hard to see the problem in this picture, so bear with me for a moment... The original yarn contains grey, green, and maroon. The new yarn is grey, green and a much lighter shade of maroon. It also has some rusty orange in it. I have to say I'm disappointed. I knew I was taking a chance on the dye lots being different, but I didn't expect the yarn to be so far off the original. The yarn is still lovely, but I'm changing my plan. Hopefully the shawl I want to knit will only take the original 3 skeins, and I can use the other 2 for something else.
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