My new blocking wires didn't show up until this morning, so the full and complete finished shawl post will have to wait until Monday. I ordered the blocking wires from Knitpicks, and feel like they were worth the price for saving me time and back aches. It only took 20 minutes to block this shawl, most of that time spent threading the wires into the shawl. Blocking a shawl with all pins, even with my string method, took at least twice as long. I don't even want to think about how long it took me to block Peacock Feathers.
I'll be wearing this to Rebecca's Saturday afternoon, if anyone is interested in seeing it in person. I'm really pleased with how it turned out, but I'll save all that blather for the Monday post.
After finishing this yesterday afternoon, I picked my Koigu sock back up, and then decided to try my first intarsia project. I have the Kaffe Fasset Tumbling Blocks Cushion kit, so I'm giving that a go. I don't know if intarsia is my thing, but I'll reserve judgment until I'm more than 3 rows in.
I also need to decide what to do for the first Amazing Lace challenge. So far, I'm thinking of wearing all my lace projects at once and holding the yarn and pattern for the next one. Feel free to chime in with better ideas. (The gist of the challenge, if you don't want to go read it, is introducing yourself and your project.) I'm still leaning towards the Icarus shawl as my next project, mainly because it's stash busting. I would have done the Rona shawl from Knitpicks, but not charted, ewww. I did call Knitpicks to complain about the pattern not being charted, but the woman I spoke to didn't seem to understand what the problems was. I also think there's an error in the 5th line of the pattern, but I can't tell for sure without knitting it to see or charting it. Not going to happen.
