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Fan & feather shawl

I finally decided what yarn I wanted to make the fan & feather shawl out of for myself. Some gorgeous yarn I got off of Ebay, 3 hanks total of 654 yards. What do you do with that odd amount of yarn? This!

I am on row 58. Not that far along. But I love the pattern!

Of course I put aside the black cardigan for today to work on this, the merino yarn is comparable to what used to sell at www.handpaintedyarn.com but now they only sell it wholesale to yarn stores. I won’t pay the $12 a hank when I used to get it for a measly $7.50! Whatever! So I found another source that I will not divulge! I am evil, yes I am!

 

 

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cardigan, anyone?

Cardigans are my thing right now. The utility of them, the variation of them, the many, many different options for closure.  Cardigans make me happy!

That is why I have 3 fully knit, waiting to be finished. Now, if you know me you know that I do not like to assemble the damn pieces! I have 2 sweaters that are almost 10 years old that need to be sewn together. SO NOT INTERESTED!! For these cardigans I keep telling myself, okay just finish knitting the next one & then whip them all together on the sewing machine, since 2 of them take zippers & I just refuse to hand sew zippers in. Well, the problem with that line of thinking is that I will just keep knitting cardigans until I have oh, a dozen or so. Then none of them will be finished completely because it’s a mountain of assembly that I just can’t climb with asthma!

But don’t worry your pretty little heads about that because I have a plan!

On Monday while George is at work I will complete, and I mean completely complete, the camping sweater. There are 3 steps left. 1) pick up sts for the zipper placket 2) assemble pieces 3) sew the zipper in.

Tada, one complete camping sweater! Hopefully! Then he’ll come home from work & surprise!! At this point he is thinking “she is never going to sew that damn thing together, i just know it….”  But I think if I talk myself into looking at it as a gift I will get it done, especially with a deadline looming! Brilliant I say!

One of the other cardigans is made from some chocolate bulky wool from handpaintedyarn.com. I sent some to my secret pal & made sure to order enough for myself, it’s so pretty! Tracy made the Hot Lava out of it & that was my motivation for knittin’ myself some!

On the needles is a cardigan out of black simply soft yarn. I am kinda using bits & pieces from 1000 sweaters  to come up with the pattern. That’s what I like about that book, it’s really just motivational reading!

Oh, speaking of reading! The new book in the Outlander series by Daina Gabaldon is out & of course, it is huge @ over 1000 pages, it is tiny print, it makes me giddy!! This ain’t no HP 2 day read people, this one might take me as long as 2 weeks! But I must savor this one, we aren’t guaranteed a 7th book. Damn them!

Well, I am off to knit! I am done with my cleaning for the morning so I am free to do what I please! Oh, coffee’s ready! Gotta run!