Long time, no post

It's been a while since I last posted. Things are kind of crazy right now. Lots of different things going on right now. Life as a project manager for a state agency is keeping me busy during the week. I also was bitten by the spring cleaning bug. I'm in the process of trying to get my apartment all nice neat and organized. That project is going to take some time. I have a vision, which unfortunately requires a lot of moving stuff around and throwing stuff away. I'm also trying to make time to work on my knitting as well. I have not been knitting as much on the weekends as I have been able to in the past.

I finally decided to take on the challenge of knitting a triangle shawl with lace weight yarn. I found a simple pattern and cast on. It is going pretty good so far. I'm using my Raspberry heather Alpaca Cloud from Knit Picks. The yarn is so thin! When I first started working with it I felt like I was going to break the yarn. I had to rip and start over a couple of times. But I finally got the hang of it. I've found that I actually like working with the lace weight yarn. Although, I think this shawl is going to take some time to complete. I've been working on it since April 20th and it doesn't even look like I have made a dent on the ball! Another thing I have discovered, after working with the lace weight yarn for a while, when I switch over to my scarf project, the worsted weight yarn feels huge in my fingers! It's very interesting.

Last month I joined a mystery shawl KAL (knit a long) that is set to start on June 14th. I'm very excited about it, and will post more information on it in another post this week hopefully. I feel that the basis and inspiration for this mystery shawl deserves a post of it's own, coming soon. I feel another evolution post coming on.

In preparation for this mystery shawl (and in the spirit of spring cleaning) my goal for May is to finish up at least three projects that I have on the needles. I'm not positive just how realistic this goal is. I have three scarves and a shawl on the needles at the moment. Here's what I have on the needles right now: Lace Triangle Shawl, Feather and Fan Scarf, Midwest Moonlight Scarf, La Dentelle Belle Scarf, Entrelac Scarf. I'm debating on which approach to take. It might be easier and more time-efficient to tackle the scarves first, as the lace shawl is going to take time because I will be knitting up the whole 440 yards of lace. I think I will focus my efforts on the Feather and Fan, Midwest Moonlight, and La Dentelle Belle scarves.

In June I will be participating on my mystery shawl and working on my first pair of Selbuvotter mittens. I'm going to go ahead and post this without pictures. I'll post again this evening after I upload pictures of my shawl and scarves.

Until next time.
~~Happy Knitting~~