WIP Wednesday: October 31, 2012

So what's new here?  I geared myself up, frogged back the body of the sweater I was knitting (following the post-GI-bug brain haze where I managed to twist the cast-on edge).  I'm not really any further along, but I have frogged and fixed to where I was.  It's not much to look at for now - just a blob on the needles, but I have knit the hem, the purl turning row, and started on the stockinette body.  Lovely, mindless stockinette for a while now.....

I also cast on for another mostly mindless project, the Multnomah Shawl, which I'm knitting up in a skein of handspun merino/soy from earlier this year. The colorway is "Fathom" and the fiber was from my fiber club earlier in 2012. 

It's reading with more gray than there actually is in the colorway, but it's a subtle shift of colors in all blues. I'm thinking this may wind up as a holiday present for my pretty young internal medicine doc - I see her a lot these days (or what feels like a lot to me) with all the pre-treatment visits, and then come in and get this checked, or come in and get a prescription for something else visits - but she's unfailingly cheerful even when I dump a bunch of completely unrelated weird symptoms in her lap. (Hey - she asks, I'm going to tell her.  I personally think almost nothing needs working up EVER, but shrug if I'm wrong, at least she'll have things documented.)  Anyhoo.... who wouldn't like a nice soft shawl that you can wear as a scarf in the winter months - and it will look really pretty with her coloring too.

And I'm still swatching. 

All for now......

Comments

[BeckyinVT]

Hmm, that Multnomah shawl looks like it might be fun in my ombre yarn from Rhinebeck. I'll have to keep it in mind!

[Manise]

Pretty shawl! That would be a lovely gift for your IM doc. Glad you're back on track with the sweater. I see a color theme here. :-)

[Cheryl S.]

That will be a great gift.

[Christina]

Big projects. I might just focus on some little ones for a while :)