As promised, a photo of the current major knitting project on needles!

Twenty-seven rows down and many more to go. I love the pattern^†, and since it’s the first triangular shawl I have knit from the neck down –as opposed to from the point up– I’m learning a new skill or two. As I suspected would happen though, I do not enjoy knitting with the cotton boucle yarn. It splits on the needles too easily, it gets fuzzy quickly, it sheds, and in the first skein, I have already run into two knots. It also makes my fingertips hurt after a while. Not hurt so much as burn. In short, Orb the Knitter is not a happy camper. Still, it will make a nice comfy shawl, and I guess it lasts as long as it lasts.

Yes, seems like a lot of work to do on something that may fuzz, pill, and shed itself into nonexistence in a year of wear (or less), but I wanted to test that pattern for possible use for the New Zealand wool boucle, which I think would be lovely as this particular shawl. I never touch the really good yarns in my stash until I have tried the pattern out on some yarn I don’t actually like. Saves me aggravation and heartache, and I end up with some nifty knitted thing I don’t have to panic about if something happens to it … and a pattern I know I like that has no mistakes in it.

1. † Luna Moth Shawl pattern by Shui Kuen Kozinski available free. [↩]