Sunday May 17th

Hello friends, I hope you are all hale 'n' hearty this 8th week of lockdown. Things are certainly odd at present with the streets quiet and empty. We are both keeping our heads down and staying indoors as much as possible. I have never been so glad in my life to have a hobby that I can do safely in the comfort of my home, I am even delighted with myself for amassing a healthy, (ahem, huge), stash from which I can draw both inspiration and comfort.

I decided during the week that the time had come to do a little something for me so I rifled through the stash and picked out some yarn to knit myself a couple of shawls.

The first is in a combination of yarns from The Border Tart. Lindsay is a specialist in indigo dyeing and I have chosen two beautiful skeins to knit myself the Sunshower Shawl by Ambah O'Brien.

The top, pink, yarn is her new Lush, this mixture of Merino, Silk and Cashmere is so buttery soft and just pure lush to knit with. Beneath is one which has been marinading nicely for a while until it told me just what it wanted to be and is a blend of BFL, Silk and Cashmere. Together they are knitting wonderfully.

I am a little further along than this now but the rows are getting very long and taking a while.

Talking of long rows brings me to the second shawl. I have cast on Flutter of the Wings by Lily Go. I have knitted this beautiful pattern once before as a swap project and the recipient loved it. Now it is time for one for me. as I have mentioned it has very long rows as it is a bottom-up shawl which means for the size I am knitting it started with a cast on of 505 stitches. I have chosen a beautiful green gradient yarn for this which is a cotton - wool mix.

 Not the best picture as it was taken indoors in the depths of winter. I have teamed it with some beautiful silver lined blue beads which make the knitting very slow going at present.

As you can see I am using the tiny crochet hook to add the beads. I do have a Fleegle beader but have mislaid it as it has been about 4 years since I last beaded anything.

You can just about see the beads here.
Sadly the knitting doesn't look like much just now but hopefully, soon things will become clearer.

I think I have bored you enough for this week, next week  will have some sock knitting updates and of course some shawl progress shots.

Stay safe, stay home and stay healthy.

Mary

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