Simple Wedding shawl Much to my relief I finished my simple wedding shawl with the Rowan Kidsilk Haze. I started this in July 2006 for my MIL. But I then had not much of lace knitting skill. So imagine the terrible struggle. She made a simplified pattern that I started a year later. A new issue popped up: I hated Kidsilk Haze so much I called it Kidsilk Hate. And then I acquired a wedding ring. A reason enough to once again start the way to the finish. Well, I’m there. I still don’t like the yarn, though it has a beautiful glance. I don’t think the shawl is lovely, I’m chiefly relieved.
Feng Mei's little jacket

I happen to be in a finishing mood… here’s another one that took me quite some time. Again: the yarn, the Drops Alpaca. It was very splitting and the perfectionist in me didn’t like the unevenness of the knitting. But look… so lovely. It’s a Drops pattern. I crocheted a border around the jacket with Drops Alpaca Silke (which by the way is very nice yarn) and found butterflies on the Fair. No buttons, but things I made into buttons. Feng Mei, daughter of my colleague Wiep, likes it very much. That makes me happy.

Well, the pile of wip’s gets smaller and smaller (socks don’t count, do they?). I go back to the serious job of knitting Mart’s sweater and one, grey, hidden, unfinished thing (isn’t it, Gini?) that I have to get even with.
And, by the way, the Sock Table on the Craft Fair was a huge success. After 3 days I came home dead tired and with an amount of stash for projects that could keep me knitting through two or three economy crisis. All good bargains for hard times,  you know, had to be bought.

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