Blocking the Leaf Lace Shawl–my first big lace project–went very well. And when I removed the pins, my fear of having it all shrink up did not come to pass! The depth of the triangle is perfect, but I wish I could have gotten a few more inches in width. All in all though, I am pleased. Pleased enough to try to do a photo shoot with M behind the camera. We were dressed for our friends’ wedding and taking photos in our condo community’s new dry creek garden. Passers-by\u00a0 gave us some strange looks.
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\nI really like the shawl pin I bought:
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\nThe dragonfly is made of brushed aluminum wire, which makes it very light weight. I bought it at Nicholas and Felice<\/a> on Etsy. All edges are smooth, so as not to damage the knitting. It really didn’t pull down on the fabric even though it’s about 3 inches long. It could also work as a hair pin if one had considerably more hair than I do!<\/p>\n

And I did wear the shawl to the wedding! The setting was amazing: in front of a pond surrounded by towering redwoods and rhododendrons.
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\nStats:
\nPattern: Leaf Lace Shawl by Evelyn Clark.
\nYarn: Handmaiden Sea Silk in Sunlit Glade. A little less than one skein.
\nNeedles: US 6, Addi Lace.
\nMods: none really, except I only knit 10 repeats, which brought the shawl to 55″ wide and 27″ deep.
\nTake home messages: The jury’s out on the whole triangular shawl shape. I may be a rectangle sort of girl. Knitting the triangle is fine, but I’m much more comfortable wearing a rectangle. But absolutely certain is that I LOVE (perhaps even LURVES) Sea Silk! It’s a dream to knit and amazingly beautiful (I have more in stash! Tee hee!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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