Saturday, January 10, 2015

New Year, New Blog, New KAL, New Shawl

Well 2015 is here so I have decided to restart an old blog of mine with a revamp.  I'm not sure if anyone will ever read anything I post but I'm not starting to blog for that reason - I am blogging to document what is going on with me (especially my yarny craftings). I'm not sure how often I'll get a chance to blog but am going to aim for at least one a week.

On the 4th January I cast on for a new shawl KAL.  I am making Quicksilver, a beautiful shawl by Melanie Berg.  The KAL is running until the 30th January and so far I have been enjoying everything about this shawl.

I am making this with madelinetosh merino light in Tart, Stovepipe & Silver Fox. I absoloutely love this yarn and was completely shocked when I counted 30 skeins in my stash.  I think I should also aim to make 2015 a stash busting year.

These are the colours for my shawl and I think they look so nice together.



The shawl is made up of nine repeats of the stripe & mesh wedge sections and I am currently up to the 6th section.




I cant wait to get this finished as my brain has already moved onto a few other projects I'm itching to make. I've also joined the 12 Shawls Forever group on Ravelry so the goal is to make 12 shawls during 2015 - looking at my Ravelry Queue I am not spoilt for choice this year.

Well since I spent ages working on the layout of this blog an dhavent had my knitting needles in my hands at all today - I'm going to sign off so I can get back to work on this shawl.

Terri K.