Every summer I knit a big lace shawl or scarf. I have become a person who needs a knitting project going at all times. When there is nothing on the needles I am fidgety and worried about what I should start next. So this summer I pulled out some Misti Alpaca Lace that I received during the last Outlander group swap and looked through my queue for a suitable pattern. I found the
North Roe Shawl. It was free, and it would use up at least two skeins of the yarn, so I cast on and a month later I had a largish triangle shawl. I used almost all of the two skeins, so almost 880 yds. I have seven leaves when counting from the top triangle, then two lacy leaves, then the edging. As you can see, it came out to be about as large as I think a triangle shawl needs to be. I like the pattern, simple, clear and pretty.
I have been working on knitting some art yarns, and this cowl is from my thick and thin spun from a beautiful Fleece Artist sliver that I got from a local business,
Colorsong Yarn. They were kind enough to write a little blog post about it, which you can read
here if you're interested.
I got a request for permission to use one of my photos on the North Roe pattern page, and I laughed when I saw that it was this one. Methinks the child is the main attraction of the photo, rather than the shawl, but she's my child, so that's fine with me. I think she's pretty adorable too.
