Must also start with a thank you – this time to Olga who was nice enough to give me this yarn in exchange for that silk I loved but could never get to work.
The second shawl of the Aunt Shawl project, this shawl is for Gloria who lives in Delaware and is the mother of four of Matt’s cousins. She’s a nurse and one of the sweetest people you will ever meet. I brought her shawl on my late-August trip to Delaware to go to the beach. She was really surprised and very excited (and was actually wearing a pink shirt when I gifted it to her – yay for proper color selection).
About the pattern – I am a royal idiot. I knit this from the copy of the pattern published in the Best of Interweave Knits. The chart is teeny tiny and, although it tells you straight out to enlarge it, I instead chose to squint to read the tiny symbols. (Even did this on the 2nd one I made, go figure.) For Gloria’s shawl I only did three repeats of the, er, repeatable pattern and ran out of yarn before I could complete the last chart (didn’t even get to the edging).
Project Ratings
Yarn/Pattern Combination: 8
Execution: 8 (bound off too tight first time and messed up the lace a little)
Pattern – Overall: 9
- Instructions: 10
- Finishing: N/A
- Stitch pattern(s): 7
- Interestingness: 6
- Desire to remake: 8 (I did make a second one, after all)
Only one photo despite the fact I had my camera with me when I gave her the shawl. Oh well, it was pouring anyway so the light would’ve been horrible.
Ravelry project page is over here.
