Shawl Progress
(Sorry about the dodgy picture, I took it very quickly this morning with my phone)
The shawl is progressing. It’s slow, but mainly because I’ve been working on other things, and haven’t had much time over the past few days to just sit down and knit on it without distraction. I’m a bit of a multi-tasker, and like to be doing a few things at once, even if those things aren’t particularly difficult. Watching tv and knitting, taking a bath and reading, knitting and chatting, etc etc. I can’t do that (yet) with lace knitting, and I think that’s why I’m enjoying it so much - I have to stay totally focussed on it, which means that I stop thinking about everything that needs doing, planning ideas and the like, and totally lose myself in yarnover, slip slip knit, knit, knit two together, yarnover, knit, knit, knit etc. At the moment it manages to switch my brain off, which is quite an achievement.
You’ve made some great progress on that shawl. It was just a few rows last I saw it. Well done! And good on ya for being able to do more than one thing at a time. I’m a hopelessly single-track kind o’ gal….
22 Feb 2007 at 3:27 pm
Ooooh. I keep looking at lace patterns & haven’t had the courage to really try one; they’re so intimidating, because you have to concentrate so much not to lose your place, or to remember which row you’re on, etc.
Can’t wait to see the finished piece!
22 Feb 2007 at 5:04 pm
Wow you have made great progress indeed on it!Looks great.
22 Feb 2007 at 9:35 pm
That looks amazing. I’m inspired to dig into my lace again.
22 Feb 2007 at 9:56 pm
How do you bathe and read without getting the book wet? The shawl looks great!
22 Feb 2007 at 10:54 pm
Thanks everyone!
David - I’m keeping track of where I am in the pattern by using photocopies of the charts and crossing out the rows as I go. I’ve used post it notes in the past - move them up row by row as you go.
Anne - I hold the book up high!
25 Feb 2007 at 11:24 pm