Rather than smashing together my daily post as I’m falling asleep, over the next little bit I’ll have a crack at catching you up my recent and future crafting!
I wrapped up knitting cassapinka’s the vibrance of strangers last month. I very much enjoyed the whole knitting process.
I knitted it with the extremely lovely Manos del Uruguay AlegrÃa in the Carnaval colourway. This was the first time I’ve used a called-for yarn in a project. We generally don’t have a good variety of yarn available to us in the antipodes and honestly I’ve really not been able to justify the expense when it is available. This was way (way!) outside my comfort zone at AU$43.90 a ball!
One I’d completed the pattern I had quite a lot of yarn remaining, so I just kept knitting in pattern until I ran out.
I’m very happy with it! I love the colour, I love the pattern, I love the feel of the yarn – BUT – I really wish it was much larger. Compare the blocking photo with the action photo and you can see what I mean. I definitely have a stronger interest in making Bonkers Giant Shawls. Though perhaps not quite as bonkers as Stephen West Shawls**.
On with the pix …
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Blocking!
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Pretty!
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Action Shot!
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** foreshadowing
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