More Shawl

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I'm on row 93 of the shawl, at 196 stitches across. It gets to 300 stitches across at row 146, before the fishtails start, so I have a way to go. I just started the third ball of yarn. The second ball of yarn is the big landmark for me; that's when I feel like I've made real progress. Now that the rows are so large, the shawl is growing much more slowly, but I'm OK with that.

I had one KWAI (knitting while ability impaired) incident last weekend, when I tried to knit when I was too tired to keep my eyes open and ended up putting the yarn overs at random all over a row in my sleep. Then I didn't notice it until I'd purled, then knit another row and held it up to look at it (the next day). What a pain to rip it out and redo. That will teach me not to fall asleep with needles in hand.

The yarn is interesting to work with: not as neat and tidy as other yarns I've worked with. Every now and then there's a slubby bit, and the occasional odd fiber. But it was a good value, and it is wonderfully soft all knit up. I love the floppiness of the loose knit; I usually tend to be overly tight in my knitting, choosing large yarn on small needles and making a nice firm fabric. I should try more stuff on oversized needles.

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Here it is stretched out as much as possible on my work table. It's big enough now to not be able to open out all the way even on 40" needles (the cutting mat has 1" squares).

The shawl

Here's a bit of a detail of the pattern. It's very simple, and it looks like hell unblocked.

Pattern

It's hard to find time to work on it now that each row takes so much longer to knit. No more quick rows while walking between classes.

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