At the beginning of the summer I started making a shawl for my mamma. I started on this idea because I saw this picture of a shawl in the knitpicks catalog and it was beautiful! (If you're a knitter and have not looked at the knitpicks website then you must go there
now!) Anyway, to make a long story short, I did not get to knit that shawl, but started looking around for a shawl to knit my mamma for Xmas because she didn't want anything that would be too hard to put on or take off. The one I picked is named the Elizabeth Zimmerman 100th anniversary camping shawl (which is a mouthful to say) by Mwaa knit obsession (it's free on
Ravelry). I took the idea from the original idea and held my yarn double and then changed colors as I knit to give it a fading looking.
To be honest, I never really saw the point of knitting lace shawls... I'm not 80, I don't generally wear shawls, but by God was that fun! I found myself wanting to knit on the shawl exclusively. I had a couple of other projects that I was supposed to do, but this one was so much more fun. I've already planned out at least two more, possibly even three or four. I guess what I'm trying to say is.... I get it now.
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