February 1st
I’m trying to use up all the yarn in my stash that I possibly can. I don’t want to buy any new yarn until I actually have room for it. So I hope I can make this shawl work with two colourways of Estonian wool which were left over from my two Revontuli shawls. So far I think it’s gone great. I love the simplicity of the first 30 or 40 rows. Just what I need right now: pretty much instant gratification.

February 4th
The shawl or shawlette (it’s turning out to be quite small) is coming along nicely. I knitted 6 rounds of the lace border but I then decided I simply had to rip it. I don’t know why, but for some reason using two different yarns is making the shawl have a very clear right side and wrong side, and the prettier side of the lace edging ended up on the wrong side of the shawl. I tried to play it off as a feature, not a bug, but had to confess in the end, that it would be much prettier the other way around.

So I had to knit one extra round without doing increases before I could begin making the lace edging again. Ah well, you can hardly tell the extra round is there, unless you look for it, and it’s coming out so much prettier this way.

The difference between the two sides is really odd. You would think the two sides would be identical. Well, you live and learn.

February 6th
I’ve done 7 repeats of the Feather & Fan border and it’s turning out soooo pretty! I’m in love :)

Because I did the extra round, the border happened to begin where I changed colours, so that the two first rounds of the pattern repeat are green and the two last rows are brown, and I think it looks great.

I might have enough yarn for a few extra repeats of the border pattern, and if I do, I think I’m going to use it all up. I don’t like having teeny tiny leftovers from yarn. I never know what to do with them, but I can’t very well throw them away either.

February 7th:
All done! I still have to block it and weave in the ends.