So, I bought a kit from Webs, called Moon River. It came with this lovely Malabrigo yarn. And so I knit it, and the pattern was really, honestly, entirely too simple. Boringly so. But the yarn was pretty. So I persevered! When I got done, it was much, much too small. I mean, yes, I don’t swatch, I get that. But seriously, it was spectacularly too small. So, I frogged the fucker.

Then, it being Christmas out of town, and I stuck with what I could find on my laptop, I rummaged around for a pattern that would take these yarns, and look good. And I found this one. I like Lucy Hauge a lot, but I gotta say, more than _twenty_ different types of cables, some of them worked on the wrong side, and charts that are, at least to me, unreadable? Look, it’s a lot of different types of cables, is what I’m saying here.

Then, I started the shawl about eight times. Part of that was just, you know, The Process. After The Process and I had worked things out, I found that I had made a poor choice about yarn A and yarn B, and had to tear that out and restart, swapping which yarn was which. And there was some other fascinating problem, which I don’t remember, which involved the yarn being just recalcitrant as fuck. All I remember are the curse words, to be honest. The rest is blessedly scrubbed from memory.

On the other hand, it’s damn pretty. Which, given the trouble it gave me, it really should be.

I still have not figured out how to avoid the gap above the 5-1 stitch. That’s really the only thing I don’t like about this shawl. If anyone out there has any pointers, do point me!