So after saying I wanted to knit a lot more, I got tons more knitting time!

My current show is super-slow backstage. The show is about 85 minutes long, and I don’t have anything to do until about 55 minutes in, so I get an hour of knitting time, usually a bit more.

I finished the first Druid mitten, and found some size issues, so I’m saving that for a later post. This post, I want to talk about what is making me happy. My Shetland Triangle Shawl is making me happy.

I’m using Zen Yarn Garden yarn, in a merino/tencel mix I got in the Harmony Semi-Solid sock club package back in March. I started it about 10 days ago, and these pictures are about 5 days old. Since then I’ve put on more repeats. I think I count 7 repeats (or working on repeat #7) in this photo, and I am currently working on repeat #10.

I love the way the different colours in the yarn play off of each other. This is perhaps the least semi-solid of all 3 of the yarns I received, having light orange through to an orange so deep it is almost red. I absolutely love it, and I love the pattern. With the colour, I think it looks almost like flames. Or possibly fall leaves.

I’ve started weighing the ball after each repeat, because I want to use as much of this yarn as possible. As I said, I’m on repeat 10, which I think may be my limit. The pattern suggests 8, so this should be a bit bigger, although I’m using a smaller needle size.

I love the texture it has right now. I didn’t take a picture of the bottom, but it looks like an egg carton! A giant, orange egg carton, but egg carton none the less.

I hope to have this finished this week. Then I think I’ll buckle down and finish the bits for my $1.50 cardigan. I think seaming would be hard backstage (I have some light, but it is still dim) but at least I would get the bits done.

The play I’m currently working on is not an uplifting show, nor is it a comedy. It’s about Nazis, concentration camps, guilt, and all sorts of other fun things so I knit because I can’t stick my fingers in my ears and say ‘lalalalalahappyfuzzypuppies!!’. It is such an amazing script and an amazing show though, and I’m very proud to be a part of it. It’s just hard to watch 8 times a week.