Oooh, ahhhhhhhh….

This is the Feather and Fan shawl from Meg Swansen’s Gathering of Lace book, knit with the optional eyelet panels. It’s over 6 feet in diameter, and here you see it pinned and blocking for the shawl show. I had to re-block it because the first time I blocked it, I stretched it out to over 8 feet or something. It was huge, and the scalloped edges were sort of distorted. It looks much nicer now.

The reason I decided to knit this shawl was because I felt an overwhelming need to knit the center of it…

Once again… Oooooooh, ahhhhhhhhhh!!! It’s so pretty. I’m planning on going down to Weaving Works today to see it displayed it in the show. I can’t help it. It’s my masterpiece thus far. And now, consistent with each time I look at and handle it, I really want to knit another big lace shawl.

My baby is seven today. I can hardly believe it. We all love her very much, and want to wish her a very happy birthday.

I got a lot of knitting done over the weekend.

I am so loving this project! The one pain about this pattern is that the cables are worked from two different charts that repeat at different times. Fortunately, I have a layout guy for a husband, so Nate made me a long, 80 row chart with the cables side by side. It is a breeze to work from. Thanks Nate! You’re the man.