Once again it has been a good long time since I last posted here. I've still been doing plenty of knitting in the mean time. Nothing that involved whipping up my own patterns, just playing with some made by others.
I took a break from more complicated patterns and made a drop stitch scarf with the new Simply Soft Paints. I absolutely love the Oceana colorway. I have another skein of it and I'm not sure what I'm going to make with it yet. The scarf still needs blocked, but I love it already. There are so many colors, it will go with everything.
I've gone back to the Old Shale scarf I started a while back. It took a while to get into the rhythm of the pattern, but I think I have it down now. I'm going a lot longer between putting in lifelines. At my own risk. I hope to have the scarf done here in the next week.
Then it will be on to some of my "pay it forward" projects. I'm going to be making two shawls which will use the feather and fan pattern as well. It is going to be quite an undertaking. Good thing I have all year, even if I'd like to get them done before June. I still haven't decided whether I want to make them both with horizontal stripes or make one with vertical stripes.
I am definitely going to make the one using Simply Soft first. It will go faster and give me a break from using tiny, splitty yarn. The Addi Lace Turbos cut down on the splitting a lot, but it still happens on occasion.
