I ran out of yarn before the final lace section. Oh well, it won’t matter. Here is the shawl before being blocked.
Here it is blocked. What a difference stretching it out makes! I didn’t use my mats and pins. I simply stood at the ironing board with a lot of steam and pulled and stretched. It’s fine.
Now, artistic shots on my big grey boulder.
A close up. Normally I wouldn’t use stripping yarn for a lace shaw. But it’s what I had and I was helping a friend. Sad to say, it just isn’t working for her. Sometimes what you think in going to be easy, isn’t.
From another angle.
It looks very good folded up. which is good, since when wearing it, it will probably look more like this than being completely stretched out.
It is going into the gift drawer. No idea who the recipient will be. Some lucky person will get it. Its’ not for me, as I said, give me a solid or kettle dyed yarn for a lace shawl.
Like this Malabrigo yarn. First of all, it’s worsted weight, so heavier yarn. Second of all, can you see the subtlety of the color. Not a solid, but far from a stripping yarn.
Look how lovely it is knit up, even without blocking, the lace pattern is very clear. Yes, I recommended to my friend that she kind this instead of the Haruni shawl. Sure, she needs to buy more yarn, but when has that every been a problem??
A real haircut!!! It’s been four months! I did get a basic trim about three weeks ago. but this is new, fresh and to my mind, very cute.
It’s a new stylist. A lot of things have happened both with the pandemic and the riots. Sometimes I just need to start out with someone new.
Leah