Black Eye Galaxy - Cast On

I needed a dead simple project for taking to work.  I actually have a sock project in my work bag but I really just don't feel like working on socks right now, so I grabbed a skein out of my stash and cast on a shawlette or scarflette or something along those lines.  The yarn is by a dyer named Alcidina (her real name is Trisha) and her tag line is "Exploring the cosmos one yarn at a time".  Being a lifelong space cadet I couldn't resist and bought a half dozen skeins from her Etsy site.  I bought the yarn at least five years ago and haven't done anything with it.  I was buying lots of single skeins of sock yarn back then (weren't we all?).  Lately I've been trying to work more from my stash and buy less yarn so I pulled out my first box of fingering (I have most of my yarn stashed by weight) and grabbed this skein and caked it up.  Because I wanted a simple knit I decided on an asymmetrical triangle, which is a shape I like, and cast on.  On the right side, I'm working a knit, yo, knit two stitches in from the right hand edge and a k2tog two stitches in from the left hand edge.  I'm knitting the wrong side rows, which will make this essentially a reversible piece when I'm done.

Yarn:  Alcidina Stargazer in Black Eye Galaxy
Pattern:  improvised
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Sunny Side Shawl - Halfway Point

I really wasn't going to participate in Camp Loopy this year.  I haven't made it through for the last couple of years.  I've signed up, but not managed to complete the projects, so I was going to pass and just focus on knitting from my voluminous stash.  Then I saw the theme for this year - Space Camp, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.  How could I not join?

The requirement for the June project was that it had to have been published in 2019.  I paged through the potential projects on Ravelry and chose something simple, a one skein shawl that would let me use up all of the skein.  I bought a skein of Canon Hand Dyes William Merino Gradient.  I used the yarn on a previous Camp Loopy project.  I have mixed feelings about this yarn.  I like the color changes, but I don't like the fact that the yarn still has the memory of being knitted as part of the dyeing process so your stitches don't come out nice and even.

The first picture was taken yesterday, just before I had reached the halfway mark, and this picture was taken this morning, just after the halfway mark.

Pattern:  Simone's Shawl by Annette Junge
Yarn:  Canon Hand Dyes William Merino Gradient
Needle: US 4 (3.5 mm)

She Sells Seashells - Halfway Point

I'm just over the halfway point and am about to do the last increase row.  I haven't spent as much time on this project over the last 10 days, focusing instead on some of the other many projects that I have on my needles.  I currently have two project bags with four projects in them (two in each bag) sitting by my knitting spot.  And that doesn't count the other project bags I have scattered around.

Pattern:  Snowmelt by Helen Stewart
Yarn:  The Unique Sheep Kiri
Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)

She Sells Seashells - Done with Color A, for now

When I was knitting this pattern the second time around I discovered that somehow I had worked more repeats of this section than the pattern called for.  It calls for 3 and I had worked 5.  I don't remember why or how, but decided that I liked it so did it again.  Studying the picture of the shawl in the pattern I also noticed that the original has another row of eyelets in the garter stripe section before the increase.  If/when I knit this pattern again I'll add that in.

Pattern:  Snowmelt by Helen Stewart
Yarn:  The Unique Sheep Kiri
Needle:  US 4 (3.5 mm)