Exordium - Making Progress

I've completed another big swath of garter stitch and have just started working another textural stitch section.  I'm not completely sold on the shawl shape, it is a little too rectilinear for me, but I'm not going to rip back and change it at this point.  I may do a project with just the textural stitch.  I have two sets of Unique Sheep gradiance leftovers that would go well together

Pattern:  Exordium by Rebecca Picoult
Yarn:  Zen Yarn Garden Superfine Fingering in Botanical and Limes
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Remnants Shawl - Cast On

Of course, once I started knitting my Adventuresome Wrap with my Sunshine Yarns set I had the problem of what to do with the leftovers.  I could just throw them in a bag, but then I would lose the order, so I decided to knit them up right away into another one of my simple garter stitch boomerang shawls.  I've knit up the first color and have actually started the second.  I think when I'm done with this set, I will take the leftovers from last year's set and do a knit on border.  The pattern is improvised.  I start out with 3 stitches and work a couple of rows where I increase without decreasing until I get to enough stitches where I can work both the increase and the decrease.  The basic pattern is as follows:

Right sides:  k2, (k, yo, k) into the next stitch, knit across to the last 4 stitches, k2tog, k2.
Wrong sides:  knit

Once I cast on, I work the right side row without the decrease until I have enough stitches to work the full pattern.

Pattern:  improvised
Yarn:  Sunshine Yarns Classic Sock
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm).

Adventuresome Wrap - Cast On

Last year I purchased a Sunshine Yarns Advent kit for my Ambah O'Brien Advent project.  I purchased another one this year.  The colorway is Night Sky.  Once again I opened all of them this past weekend.  Unlike last year, the yarns came in little paper bags with the number on the bag and no identification on the skein itself, which meant that after I unwrapped them I had to be careful to keep them in the proper order.  I decided the best way to do that was to knit them up quickly, so yesterday I cast on.  I cast on 202 stitches to make the shawl wider and to use up more yarn.  It's a good thing I did, too, as I'm still only using up about 2/3 of each of the mini skeins.

When Ambah announced her 2019 patterns, Sunshine Yarns suggested some neutral skein colors for the main color on the Adventuresome Wrap.  I picked up a skein of gray.  But then I saw that someone on Ravelry was using red as their main color and that got me thinking.  So I looked at my colors and decided that a bold blue might be a good color to go with my set.  I had what I thought would be the perfect color lurking in my stash, I just had to find it.  It was catalogued on Ravelry, but the location information was incorrect.  I finally found it hiding in a project bag for one of my many WIPs.  The gray will go to good use, however, the main color in the Jimmy Beans Craftvent calendar this year is a gray fuzzy alpaca, and I just don't do fuzzy yarns, plus I have to be a little careful with alpaca as it can make my hands itch.

The colors are (from top to bottom and left to right):
1.  Outer Space
2.  Black Hole
3.  Dark Nebula
4.  Asteroid
5.  Horizons
6.  Blue Moon
7.  Aurora Borealis
8.  Equinox
9.  Orbit
10.  Crater
11.  Ursa Major
12.  Galaxy
13.  Neutron
14.  Constellations
15.  Orion Nebula
16.  Pink Sky
17.  Star Cluster
18.  Starburst
19.  Lyra
20.  False Dawn
21.  Satellite
22.  Comet Tail
23.  Heat Lightning
24.  Polaris
25.  Light Year

Pattern:  ADVENTuresome Wrap by Ambah O'Brien
Yarn:  Sunshine Yarns Classic Sock, 2019 Night Sky Advent
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

The Unique Sheep - Christmas Advent Calendars

For the past three years The Unique Sheep has been creating Christmas Advent Yarn Calendars.  They are a lot of dyers out there creating Advent calendars now, partly driven by Ambah O'Brien's ADVENT patterns.  The first year I purchased one calendar - the Bright and Bold colorway.  The second and third years I purchased both colorways.  This year I was on travel for work the first two weeks of December, first to Norway and then to California, so I was not able to open my Advent calendars every day.  Instead I waited and opened them all this past weekend.  The inspiration for this year was A Christmas Carol and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Here is the complete set of A Christmas Carol.  The top picture shows how they were boxed and the bottom picture puts them in numerical order, which forms a circular gradiance.  The boxing order was:  8, 20, 7, 9, 19, 18, 5, 4, 3, 2, 16, 17, 15, 1, 24, 14, 15, 12, 11, 23, 22, 10, 21, 9

Here is the complete set for A Nightmare Before Christmas,  The top photo shows how they were boxed, and the bottom picture shows them grouped into their four sets.

The four sets are:  Lock, Stock & Barrel (top left, gradiance), The Electric Oogie Boogie (top right, gradiance), Sally (bottom left) and Speckle (bottom right).

Yarn:  The Unique Sheep

Botanical Exordium - Cast On

I had originally picked out these two skeins, which came as a pair, for Anna Dalvi's 2019 Advent Shawl, but I didn't like the way they were working up together for that pattern, as you can see from the picture below.  I will come back to Anna Dalvi's shawl later, and I have yarn in my stash in mind for it - yellow and red (Butter and Sin).

Then Exordium came out, and I scored a free copy during the introductory period (it hit number 1 on Ravelry).  I like the textural quality of the shawl, and thought it just might tame the variegated skein.  I like how it is coming out so far.

I really like the section that I'm working now, even if that stitch is a little bit of a pain to work.

Pattern:  Exordium by Rebecca Picoult
Yarn:  Zen Yarn Garden Superfine Fingering in Botanical and Limes
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Sunshower Shawl - Five through Eleven

Steady work this past week on this shawl has seen me through the rest of the little boxes that have been stacking up all year on the floor of my piano room (which also holds the latest yarn acquisitions and general yarn overflow).  All of the little boxes have been broken down and placed in the recycle bin, although I was tempted to keep them, they are really nice boxes.  I did make a modification to the pattern once I got to the lace section.  I recognize this lace motif from Ambah's 2018 Advent shawl.  This time I decided to maintain they symmetry and only worked 4 (ssk, yo) instead of 5, and then k3, continuing on with the 4 (yo, k2tog).  On the right side rows I maintained the m1l, k1, m1r.  I am left with a bag of leftovers.  I think all of the boxes had a little ball of additional yarn in them, which I have gathered up along with the leftovers.  I will probably lay them out in a pleasing color scheme and make a simple garter stitch boomerang shawl out of them - just to use them up.

The colors in the shawl so far:
Ceremony
Winter's Rest
Silver Fox
Constellation
Antler
Star Scatter
Hosta Blue
Dopamine
Coquette Deux
Beautiful Liar

I don't have the 11th color list yet, as I still have one more row to go with that color.  I have been joining the new yarn to the old to avoid weaving in a lot of ends when I'm done.  The final box will be mailed after Christmas.

Pattern:  Sunshower Shawl by Ambah O'Brien
Yarn:  Tosh Merino Light
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Sunshower Shawl - Two, Three & Four

I've been working on this shawl yesterday and today and have made it through three more mini skeins and am about to start the fifth.  This is easy knitting, read while I knit knitting.  I finished a marvelous science fiction novel - The Last Dance by Martin Shoemaker.  Old fashioned science fiction, with solid science behind the fiction.

The colors so far:
Ceremony
Winter's Rest
Silver Fox
Constellation

Pattern:  Sunshower Shawl by Ambah O'Brien
Yarn:  Tosh Merino Light
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Sunshower Shawl - One

This shawl is from the Jimmy Beans shawl club for 2019.  Every month a cute little box came with a portion of the the pattern on a card and a pre-wound ball of yarn (or yarns).  You're supposed to work a little each month, but I didn't do that.  I've been stacking the little boxes all year and this morning I decided to cast on.  The yarn is a single, which is not my favorite kind of yarn - it's isn't very strong or pill resistant, but it is soft and squishy.

Pattern:  Sunshower Shawl by Ambah O'Brien
Yarn:  Tosh Merino Light in Ceremony
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Linger Later Brioche Cowl - Finished!

I've been wanting to try out Brioche for a while now and this afternoon I finally did.  The yarn is from the Space Cadet Space Monsters club, a yarn club that features heavier weight yarns.  I don't usually knit with the heavier weight yarns, but decided I wanted to stretch myself some so I joined.  This was the August 2019 yarn, Linger and Later.  One was the club shipment and the other was the complementary colorway that they dyed to go with it.  I ordered the complementary color right away, but then they sat in my stash while I tried to figure out what to make with them.  I knew that I wanted a cowl, and I wanted something that would show case the yarn.  This afternoon I finally realized that a Brioche cowl would be perfect.  I searched Ravelry for a simple Brioche Cowl and found this.  Super easy, super fast, very addicting.  Here is the other side.  I love that Brioche is completely reversible.

Pattern:  Beginners Brioche Cowl by Lavanya Patricella
Yarn:  SpaceCadet Elara
Needle:  US 9 (5.5 mm)

Dreamy Adalia - Blocked!

I trimmed all of the ends and tried it on this morning.  The fit is good.  I also ordered some pewter Celtic Knot buttons for it, as opposed to the crochet buttons called for in the pattern.  When I picked up the collar I did not pick up the stitch count indicated in the pattern, but simply picked up evenly along the neck.  Then I worked two complete rows in pattern.  The first row (which is a wrong side row) I decreased, in pattern, to get the correct number of stitches as called for in the pattern.  Then I worked a right side row to get back to the starting point for the short rows, which I worked as called for in the pattern.  I picked up the wraps as I came to them on the succeeding row.  I bound off knitwise, as there was no indication in the pattern directions to bind off in pattern (as had been given for the sleeves).  From the pictures it looked like a knitwise bind off.

Pattern:  Adalia by Jennifer Wood
Yarn:  Spirit Trail Fiberworks Verdande in Daydream
Needles:  US 6 (4 mm)

Dreamy Adalia - Both Sleeves Finished!

Actually, the cardigan is blocking right now.  I finished up the first sleeve yesterday and the second sleeve this afternoon, and the collar this evening.  I added extra stitches into the underarm as I was worried about it being too tight there based on the pictures and the instructions.  I also picked up extra stitches when I worked the sleeves, ending up with 10 stitches picked up in the underarm instead of the 3 called for in the pattern.  The KC setup has only 7 decreases for the sleeve, instead of the 8 called for in the pattern.  I noticed this when I was working the first sleeve but didn't worry about it as I wasn't trying to match the pattern stitch count anyway.  Once it's done blocking I'll attach the buttons and sew the button band flap down.

Pattern:  Adalia by Jennifer Wood
Yarn:  Spirit Trail Fiberworks Verdande in Daydream
Needles:  US 6 (4 mm)

Dreamy Adalia - Body Done!

I finished up the body this afternoon.  I started getting a bit too complacent at the end and crossed a couple of cables the wrong way a couple of times.  Usually I spotted it on the next right side row, but one of them I didn't spot until six rows later.  Yikes.  I had to do some cable surgery to fix it.  There was one thing I discovered with the KC version of the pattern.  They created a diamond chart for the last part of the body by combining several charts so you have one chart with five diamonds on it, but they used charts that had increases in them for two of the diamonds (the first and last diamonds) but the instructions clearly state that there are no further increases at this point.  I checked photos of the cardigan from the pattern and also from project pages and decided to ignore those increases.

On to the sleeves now.  I'm going to switch to the next generation of knitCompanion at this point.

Pattern:  Adalia by Jennifer Wood
Yarn:  Spirit Trail Fiberworks Verdande in Daydream
Needles:  US 6 (4 mm)

Winter Braided Yoke - Finished!

I finished this up last Sunday but finally got a beauty shot this morning.  I used up all of my yarn.  Well, all but a tiny ball of 5 grams.  Now that this is done I'll get back to my Adalia.  I am close to finishing that as well.  Almost done with the body, and then just the sleeves and collar.

This pullover fits perfectly.  Comfortably loose without being too big.

Pattern:  Winter Braided Yoke by Hélène Rush
Yarn:  Knit One, Crochet Too Meadow Silk
Needle:  US 7 (4.5 mm)

Winter Braided Yoke - One Sleeve Done!

I finished up the first sleeve this morning.  Once I had gotten through all of the decreases I weighed the yarn, then weighed it again 10 rows later.  From that I was able to determine how many more rows I could work.  I ended up starting the ribbing on row 101 and working 7 rows of k2, p2 ribbing, as I did for the bottom of the body and the neck edge.  I had to increase one stitch in order to get the ribbing to work.  The pattern has you decrease one stitch before starting the ribbing, but the pattern also calls for a k1, p1 ribbing, which I have never liked.  I also only worked 1 inch of ribbing as opposed to the 2.5 inches called for in the pattern - I don't like a lot of cuff on my sweaters.  I ended up with 70 grams of yarn left on my final skein, which is enough to do the other sleeve with a little extra for margin.

Pattern:  Winter Braided Yoke by Hélène Rush
Yarn:  Knit One, Crochet Too Meadow Silk
Needle:  US 7 (4.5 mm)

Winter Braided Yoke - Body Done!

I finished up the body this morning.  I only did 5 of the 6 increases called for in the pattern and began working the ribbing on row 81.  I worked a k2, p2 ribbing for 7 rows and bound off in pattern.  I had to decrease 1 stitch at each side to get the correct number of stitches for the ribbing to work.

I have 39.2 grams left of skein 4 and I've caked and weighed skein 5, which came in as the lightest of the bunch at 97.9 grams.  That means I have 137.1 grams for the sleeves, or 68.55 grams per sleeve.  Hopefully that will be enough.  I figure if I run short I can always make 3/4 sleeves instead of full length sleeves.

Pattern:  Winter Braided Yoke by Hélène Rush
Yarn:  Knit One, Crochet Too Meadow Silk
Needle:  US 7 (4.5 mm)

Winter Braided Yoke - Neckband Done!

Last night I worked the neckband with skein 3.  It went quickly, although I think my copy of the pattern has an error as it states to work the ribbing on the neckband the same as the body, for 2.5 inches.  But the ribbing on the body is only worked for 1 inch, and based on the picture on the pattern the neckband is only worked for 1 inch.  I worked a k2, p2 rib instead of a k1, p1 rib as I like the look of it better.  The back shows the short rows that are worked to make it fit better.  I used shadow wraps for the short rows.

I tried it on this morning and I'm happy to say it fits perfectly.

Pattern:  Winter Braided Yoke by Hélène Rush
Yarn:  Knit One, Crochet Too Meadow Silk
Needle:  US 7 (4.5 mm)

Winter Braided Yoke - Two Skeins Done

This has been some good mindless knitting for me this weekend, and being worsted weight the knitting goes quickly.  Now that I've finished up my second of five skeins I'm going to go back and finish up the neckline so that I can use up the rest of the yarn on the body and the sleeves.  I've noticed that all three of my skeins so far are a little under 100 grams.

Pattern:  Winter Braided Yoke by Hélène Rush
Yarn:  Knit One, Crochet Too Meadow Silk
Needle:  US 7 (4.5 mm)

Winter Braided Yoke - Yoke Done!

Last week I received a message on Ravelry from someone interested in buying my Knit One, Crochet Too Meadow Silk yarn.  In order to determine if I was willing to sell I looked it up in my stash and noted that I had it ear-marked for a pattern, which I also looked up on Ravelry.  Next, I pulled the yarn out of the box it was stashed in and started hunting for the pattern, which I did finally find, and decided to cast on, and informed the person who had inquired that the yarn was not for sale.  I cakedup a skein and knit a quick swatch, getting gauge right off.  I finished the braided yoke today and started working on the body.

Pattern:  Winter Braided Yoke by Hélène Rush
Yarn:  Knit One, Crochet Too Meadow Silk
Needle:  US 7 (4.5 mm)

Dreamy Adalia - Making Progress!

I finally picked this project back up after letting it sit for almost 3 years.  In the interim I've started and finished 78 other projects.  Once I put it down it was intimidating to pick it back up again, given the complexity of the pattern.  I bought the pattern already set up for knitCompanion because of the complexity, but unfortunately that left me feeling like I was working blind, just following the instructions without a clear understanding of where I was going.  Not a good feeling.  And then there was the whole knitCompanion upgrade and I was working this in the Legacy app.  Fortunately I can still work in the Legacy app and once I got started it actually came back to me pretty quickly.  I think I'm getting close to being done with the body.

Pattern:  Adalia by Jennifer Wood
Yarn:  Spirit Trail Fiberworks Verdande in Daydream
Needles:  US 6 (4 mm)

Peacock Feather Shawl II - Finished!

Wow.  Has it really been a month since I've posted anything?  Well, I have been busy.  I finished Artsygal 2 back on October 20, and discovered a hole in it when I was blocking.  I still need to fix it.  More on that in a later post.  I also whipped this little shawl out while I pondered how to fix my other shawl.  I knit this for Ellen of Earthfaire.  She will be kitting it up for her store.  Thankfully the pattern instructions have been completely revamped and are now super easy to follow.  This one came out a little bit smaller than my first one. I think it is due to the Ella Rae, which just doesn't quite have the bulk of the Rowan Baby Merino Silk DK.  But on the bright side, at least I didn't run out of it.  I have more yarn to make another one and I bought extra so I can make the shawl bigger.

Pattern:  Peacock Feathers Shawl by Aksenik Lyudmila
Yarn:  Schoppel-Wolle Zauberball Starke 6 and Ella Rae Lace Merino DK
Needle:  US 2.5 (3 mm)

Moonflower - Finished!

I finished the shawl almost a week ago, but didn't block it until the weekend.  I added beads to the center of the lace motifs, although my first attempt did not get them centered vertically and I had to shift them one at a time as I worked across the row that they really should have been on.  This involved stopping at each bead, dropping down the stitch, pulling off the bead, pulling the stitches back up and putting the bead back on.  Fortunately once I figured out which row they really should be on I got them right the first time on the second diamond.  I also did an I-cord bind off with color A.

Blocking wasn't hard, but getting a good picture was because of the size and shape of the shawl.

Pattern:  Moonflower by Larissa Brown
Yarn:  SpaceCadet Celeste
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Moonflower - Clue 3 Done

I finished Clue 3 at least 2 weeks ago, but never got around to posting.  In fact it has been almost three weeks since I last posted.  Things have just been crazy busy.  At this point I've actually finished the shawl, but that will have to wait for the next post.

Pattern:  Moonflower by Larissa Brown
Yarn:  SpaceCadet Celeste
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Artsygal 3 - Cast On

Once I had finished up the body of my second Artsygal shawl I cast on my third one.  These skeins came as a set of four, and the color repeat is shorter, so it will be interesting to see how it comes out.

Pattern:  improvised
Yarn:  Artsygal
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Artsygal 2 - Shawl Body Done

I finished up the body of my second Artsygal shawl over a week ago, but hadn't gotten around to taking any pictures.  I have already picked up the stitches on the decrease edge and started working the border, although I haven't gotten very far - not quite one repeat.  Once I'm finished with this one and my third one I will probably go back to the first one and ravel the border and work a few more rows on the body to get that one to an even repeat of the border (it ends on a half repeat) and use up more of the yarn - I have 25 grams left and didn't make it to the yellow on the border.

Pattern:  improvised
Yarn:  Artsygal
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Moonflower - Clue 2 Done

I finished up Clue 2 this past weekend, a little behind on the knitting.  Last week work was just insane, but we finished up the week with a nice little adventure - a Full Moon Kayak trip on the Potomac River, courtesy of Caledon State Park.  I spotted it on Facebook and Bruce stopped by the Park a week ago when he was out running errands and they just happened to have a cancellation on a tandem kayak, which was exactly what we wanted.  We didn't see the moon, as it was overcast, but we did see bioluminescence when we paddled thanks to some jelly fish.  We signed up for the next Full Moon Kayak trip in October.  Hopefully the skies will be clear so we can see the moon and the stars.

Pattern:  Moonflower by Larissa Brown
Yarn:  SpaceCadet Celeste
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Moonflower - Clue 1 Done

Larissa Brown's Moonflower Mystery Knit Along started last week.  I picked up the pattern back in July, when she announced it.  I have a couple of her patterns in my library, but this is the first one that I've actually knit.  I've been trying to use stash yarn (event though new yarns keep appearing in my house - I have tried to slow the influx) and these three colors come from the SpaceCadet Gradient Explorers Club (which is one of the ways that new yarns keep appearing in the house, but hey, once they're here, they count as stash, right?).  I had all of them sitting in a box and I kept taking them out and looking at the colors and wondering what they wanted to become.  Last week I decided to take three of the colors and use them for this shawl.  The color sitting on the neck of the dress maker dummy was the first one that called to me.  It is the July 2019 shipment and the color is Berry Picking.  For my first choice I grabbed  June (Smoulder), May (Laser Tag) and July (Berry Picking)

But that was just a bit too monochromatic.  Larissa gave me some feedback and even checked out my impressive stash catalog on Ravelry, but of course these skeins haven't made it into my Ravelry stash just yet.  So I swapped out the left hand skein.

Replacing June (Laser Tag) with April (...and the Russians used a pencil).  But then I grabbed February (Take it Slow) and March (Burgle Isn't a Word) and swapped out the first and second skeins.  I knew I really wanted that third skein.  And I got that little frisson that says "YES".

I posted both of these two trios in the forum and Larissa's response to the second one was "WOW".  Which was pretty much how I felt.  And as you can see from the picture of the shawl - yeah, WOW.  Now I have to wait until next week for the next clue.  Sigh.  To pass the time I've been setting up two other Larissa Brown patterns - Lunar Phases and Midwinter Moon and pondering colors.  I have to say, the pattern is extremely well written.  One of the best I've ever seen.  The other two patterns also look to be extremely well written - it makes for a longer pattern, but I'm good with that if I don't have to do any reverse engineering from photos or make guesses as to what the designer meant.  And she also provides excellent advice for choosing colors.

Here are all of my Gradient Explorer Skeins hanging out together.  The picture really does not do them justice.  Even Bruce says "WOW" when he sees the skeins.

The one on the far right just came in the mail.  It is called "Sassy".  I can't wait to see what comes next.

Pattern:  Moonflower by Larissa Brown
Yarn:  SpaceCadet Celeste
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Artsygal 2 - Cast On

Once I got the first Artsygal shawl to the point where it was no longer mindless knitting, and had freed up a needle by finishing the border on one edge of the shawl, I cast on a second Artsygal shawl.  I've made  fair bit of progress this weekend, and finished reading one book and made it over half way through another (Felse mysteries by Ellis Peters).  I actually cast on this shawl a week ago, exactly (August 18), but finally got around to taking a photo today.

Pattern:  improvised
Yarn:  Artsygal
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Artsygal 1 - Finished!

I was going to do another knit on border across the top edge, but after 3 repeats I realized I wouldn't have enough yarn to complete it with the border that I picked, so I ripped it out and decided to block it and then decide if it needed more embellishment.  I quite like how it came out.  I still have 27.5 grams of the second skein left - all the yellow part.  I'm not sure what I will do with it.

Pattern:  improvised
Yarn:  Artsygal
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Artsygal - Main Border Finished!

I finished up the border on the decrease edge and the cast on edge last night.  I still have 27 grams of yarn, enough to do another knit on border across the increase edge, which is the neck edge of the shawl.  I am going to use a portion of the same border that I used on the other two edges, it just won't be as deep.  I've picked up stitches along the neck edge, but I had to cut my yarn and start picking up the stitches at the opposite end so that when I start working the knit on border the color sequence of the border will not be interrupted.  I joined my yarn to the tail of my cast on, which anchored it nicely and takes care of having to weave in either of those ends.

I debated working some short rows at the corner between the decrease edge and the live stitches edge, but in the end I decided that the turn angle was shallow enough that blocking will take care of things.  You can see the remains of my second skein sitting on top of the dress maker dummy.

Pattern:  improvised
Yarn:  Artsygal
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Artsygal 1 - One Skein Finished!

I finished up the first skein and attached the second skein and started working a border on the bottom edges.  I picked a wide border to use up as much of the second skein as possible.  This border is from a pattern called Damask Rose that was part of a Unique Sheep club a while back.  I modified the chart to make it garter stitch lace, in keeping with the garter stitch of the body.  I ran out of the first skein while knitting a right side row on the body, attached the second skein, and when I got to the end of the row I grabbed another needle and started picking up stitches every other row (between the purl bumps) on the decrease edge of the shawl.  Then I cast on for the edging and started working my way back.  The decrease edge had exactly the right number of stitches to get 10 repeats of the border pattern.  The live stitch edge has enough stitches for 10.5 repeats.  When I get done with that I think I will work another edging across the top, but work it so that the right side shows when it is folded back.  I'm having fun playing with this shawl.  I was telling my husband that when you have a skein of yarn that is very precious you are reluctant to just play with it.  With these skeins I don't have any reluctance at all and I'm quite enjoying the results.

Pattern:  improvised
Yarn:  Artsygal 3-Ply Merino
Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Desert City Wattage - Finished!

After blocking my Perfect Blend I focused on my third Camp Loopy 2019 project and finished it up on Friday.  This is the fifth time I've made this pattern and I just love the bright colors in this one.

I have another set of the same base in colors that I think might suit my sister Virginia.

Pattern:  Practically by Kelly Herdrich
Yarn:  Dream in Color City in Desert City Wattage
Needle:  US 6 (4 mm)