The real violets

It's been a long long week. After last weekend's events I was left with very little energy throughout most of the week. Very little knitting. But that did not stop me from knitting a little on the "Violets by the River" shawl with the intended yarn that arrived 10 days ago. I am using KnitPicks' Shadow in the color Sunset. 100% Merino Wool. I can't tell you how much better it is knitting lace with lace weight yarn. I mean it looks so much better. A bit scary with very thin yarn. But I shouldn't complain. Many others are using sewing-thread-like yarn for their projects. Just look at this. You can hardly see the yarn Ted is using for the Princess.

OK, here's a picture of my work on the Violets so far. Only five rows of them but you can see that it's definitely better than sock yarn. :-)

Other than the concern of making mistakes when the shawl grows wider, I am also concerned that the right edge is not as neat as the left edge. It's a bit loose compared to the left. I got the same thing when I was using sock yarn for tests. Hope this will be corrected during blocking.

Oh, that ball of yarn, it took me an hour winding it by hand. LOL And I have another hank to do. I don't own a ball winder or a swift. Guess I should get them if I want to do more lace! My partner is going to roll his eyes when those show up.

Oh, hey, Gerald, thanks for sending all the lace goodies. It's a stack of treasures! I'm going to have fun reading about the history, the different lace styles and all those project ideas! It's funny that I feel that I know of the "conference". But I just can't think of where I've heard about it.