Golden Leaves Shawl

To try to keep myself on track, as well as make this whole project manageable and not just beat myself up over what I don't do, I am trying a new approach for the next few months. For each of the Style Statement categories, I write down one thing I'd like to focus on for the month. Sometimes it's something concrete like "paint the living room" and other times it's more of improving a habit or attitude.

I got the idea for this from someone's blog... I can probably find it if I think about it for a minute...Ah ha! It's Graceful Creative (a whole blog devoted to following her style statement).

I'll post my June goals in a couple of days. For now, I'll reveal my latest knitting project, which also was my "creative" goal for the month of May.

 
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This shawl is a gift for my husband's grandmother's birthday. Originally I thought I would be really creative and try to design a shawl myself, but after ripping it out about 5 or 6 times and a birthday deadline looming, I decided that I needed to get real and just knit something from a pattern.

Project Details:

Pattern: Leaf Lace Shawl by Evelyn A. Clark

Yarn: Lulu's Yarns Supersock Merino

Needle Size: Size 6

Pattern Modifications: None... why mess with perfection? =)

Time to knit: about 3 weeks

Final impressions: Matt said his grandma liked yellow, but WHOA this yarn is really yellow. I was worried it would be overwhelming, but it was not bad at all once it was blocked and had all the big lacy holes in it.