There's been a tear in subspace and I have been sucked into a temporal paradox, someone please call Captain Janeway and B'lenna. It would appear as if I am writing to you from the distant future, year 2017 when last we spoke it was 2015. How could this be?
One possibility is that I have been disgracefully neglecting my blog while I charted unknown knitting adventures. I don't think Captain Janeway ever missed a log, I should be ashamed. Another possibility is that I was held captive by a nomadic knitting society with no access to the internet so I was forced to recount my experience to a mere mouse with whom I shared a cell--something tells me those accounts will go unseen and unheard. The last and most fantastic possibility is that just like the tragically long movie interstellar all of my posts and messages takes years to get to you as I have fell through a wormhole in landed in a whole different time frame in outer space.
What really happened?!?!?
Well...a little bit of all that happened actually the last year and a half seemed to have gone by at warp speed. But, as they say true love has a habit of coming back and knitting and writing have been as true a love as any. So, I have returned from my solo adventure, my captivity, and my wormhole only to pickup exactly where I left off.
In my travels I have come across beautiful luxurious yarns like Blue Heron's Cerulean Sky Rayon Metallic Yarn: 85% Rayon and 15% Metallic. The feel of this yarn is like silk and the drape is incredible if I ever have an opportunity to knit with this yarn again I would definitely make some sort of garment like an elegant tank top.
What I ended up making with this yarn is a shawl link here: Holden Shawl. I am not sure if I picked the right pattern for this yarn. I will let you be the judge. I found this pattern online and I thought the simplicity of it would allow the yarn to stand out until I ran out of before the end of the pattern...oops. See the picture below a few rows of the scalloped lace pattern are missing.
I tackled the pattern again with a different yarn. Bonita Oasis, which is 50% wool and 50% acrylic. The coloring is beautiful the drape is kind of stiff. Below our pictures of the yarn and the shawl. I desperately need to block the yarn because of curling on the picot edging but I am super lazy when it comes to blocking and weaving in ends so, that may or may not happen another year and a half from now.
I have so much more to share with you! But alas it must wait until next time I want to tell you about my adventures in organizing a meetup, the baby fever pandemic, KAL's, and designing mishaps. Miss you already!
Peace, fleeace, and yarn ball grease,
-Paige
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