Projects

Projects are funny things.  You take what you think you know and then you start adding to it.  Maybe you know a color.  Maybe you have an idea for a pattern.  I have one project that has been years in the making in that I have a who, I have a color, but it took forever to find the right shade and the right pattern.  I have one project where the color told me it belonged to.  This project is very similar to that one in that the minute I saw the pattern, I knew exactly who it was for, and I knew exactly how I wanted to do it.

The pattern is The Turtle's Journey, by Heather Anderson, and the fiber is Drift, by Fiber Artemis,

(from the Fiber Artemis Etsy Shop)

I was so excited about this spin that there are almost no notes at all.  There are no pictures of the braids taken when I received them because I immediately split them up for spinning.

I wanted this to literally look like turtles going into the sea, so I kept the gradient and spun a two-ply yarn:

This is what happens when you have one too many projects going at one time and you need stitch markers:

It was not a fast knit through the section of turtles.  I carefully counted and recounted to make sure there was no mistake, for fear that I would be completely lost and have to start the section over from the beginning.

In-progress turtle picture

I love pre-blocking and post-blocking photos because the difference is so dramatic.

I am so pleased.  The shawl turned out exactly as I had it in my head. It went out last week to its new owner, who (thankfully) was just as pleased.