So, I’m finally knitting out of this glorious book. I’ve wanted to for a long time, but the patterns aren’t straight forward. Well, they kind of are, but the book gives you so many sizing and gauge options… plus there is no yardage given. You get the weight of the shawl in the back of the book, but it isn’t easy to find. Anyway, I’ve been a either too intimidated or too lazy to start one. Until now.

My neighbor is dyeing. She’s been in treatment for cancer for years and has just been released for hospice care. I don’t even know if I’m saying that right. I haven’t met her in the year we’ve lived here. She’s been too sick to be out much, but her husband is out with his dog a lot, and is very friendly. I’m so sad for him.

Anyway, a couple days ago I thought about making her a small shawl to maybe bring her a little bit of joy, which is why I was looking at the Angel Lace shawl by Evelyn Clark. But then I thought that triangular shawls don’t fit well, and if she is bedridden and not feeling well, she isn’t going to want to be fussing with a migrating shawl. (She might not even want to wear a shawl at all, I don’t know). But the Faroese shawls came to mind and I went to the yarn store to find something lovely and soft in blue.

I bought some sport weight Frog Tree Alpaca in a beautiful, mellow blue. I started working on it (and re-started, and re-re-started, and, um, yeah, re-re-re-started… I could keep going) on Saturday afternoon. Finally figuring out what I was supposed to do, I started making a little progress, worked on it a lot yesterday, and much of today, and I’m almost two out of the six skeins into it.

I don’t know how much time she has. I’m hoping I finish it before it’s too late.