Flower Basket Shawl.

Well, I rose to the challenge (self-inflicted). This is my progress so far after signing up with Sarah's knitalong at KnitOneSpinToo . The Upper pattern is complete (after completely frogging three times). You can see the blue "lifeline" that separates it from the Lower pattern which involves repeats of the same ten rows. The first of the ten row repeats are finished (after frogging twice). By the time I've repeated them seven more times I should have it all figured out...so I'm likely to keep on going and it will end up huge.

It has been 12 long years since I knitted anything really lacy and that was a shawl for the birth of my grand daughter Sydney. I'm now reminded as to why it has been that long. There is something about lace that doesn't easily compute, and it never did....I don't understand why.

The pattern is from the fall issue of Interweave Knits and the yarn is 100% Alpaca and the perfect weight for this shawl using a single strand (the pattern called for two strands of a fine lace weight). The yarn came from the Bovidae Farm at Mars Hill NC. (828-689-9931) This was purchased last year....$20. for 8oz. Excellent value and oh, so soft!