So. After a couple of months working with my head down, nose to the grindstone, I finally finished up a few patterns in time for the DKC Spring Frolic. Sunday I crashed. Monday and Tuesday were spent cleaning up my workroom and getting myself prepared to start in on my next big project.
I knew I needed something to work on this week that wasn't work related in any way, that was just something I could pick up yarn and needles and pattern and follow instructions and go.
So when I found myself pulling Sharon Miller's Wedding Ring Shawl off the shelf and reading through the pattern, I knew that I had to quench that bit of crazy pretty quickly. Oh, for sure, it would take my mind off work. But then I wouldn't want to put it down in a week's time, and frankly, after what happened to my Princess Shawl (I spent a month working on it, then had a nasty fall and couldn't knit much of anything for months, and I'm still trying to work up the energy to figure out what I was doing on Princess when I suddenly had to stop working on it. There was a brief moment yesterday when I tried to convince myself that knitting the Wedding Ring Shawl would be a good step towards reviving Princess...)
Last night, I got thinking about the Liesl that I'd seen on Saturday, and how nice it was, and how I'd put that on a Knit One Day list when it came out. So, I went and downloaded the pattern, realized I had yarn in the stash and an appropriate sized needle (rare for me -- pattern calls for a 7.0 mm needles, and I rarely use anything above a 4.0 mm. I figured this was a sign.)
I cast on, I started knitting, and after a bit, here's what I had:
Colour is off, of course, as I was taking that late at night. More photos and additional details as I make some progress. But it's turning out to be just the perfect transitional project right now.
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