While purple and red are one of my favorite color combinations, deep plum and deep red specifically, my hair and this shawl completely clash. So I included myself in some of these photos! Hee hee.

Once again, it amazes me how warm these light, airy shawls are.

and very soft

It appears from the photos, that I need blocking wires. In person, you don’t notice the bumpy edge, but I’m seeing it quite distinctly in the pictures. Darnit.

So, I was thinking last night about the next shawl. And I was thinking that delicate laceweight might not be the smartest way to go, because I would like the intended recipient to wear and enjoy it without worrying about snagging or ruining it. SO, I think I’m going to knit the third into a Flower Basket Shawl with fingering weight. I even have the right yarn (I think). To please the intended recipient, I might also add a lot of beads, like, perhaps in every basket? What do you think? If it were for me, I wouldn’t, but the idea intrigues.

Of course, I had this thought after buying some laceweight alpaca to sample the Azalea pattern with. So I’ll probably mess around with that at some point, too.

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