Sometime back in May, in the middle of the pre-wedding CRAY-ZAY I thought it was a good idea to knit myself a wedding shawl, in our wedding colours. I started it, for sure, but it was nowhere near done on the day, and I had given up on getting it done a few weeks before. It turned out that the day was warm enough (or I was nervous/sweaty enough) that I didn’t need a shawl, although the AC in the hotel room was a little chilly, so the photographer got this awesome photo of the only time I wore my Evenstar shawl that day:
I was recently assessing my knitting works-in-progress, and pulled out the wedding-shawl-that-wasn’t.
It’s a lovely pattern, Anne Hanson’s Potager, and the yarn is from the Unique Sheep (Marici 100% silk in Velvet Teal) in just the right shade of teal. I even found frosted apple green seed beads to put in instead of the nupps:
They’re a little hard to see, but nothing an eventual blocking won’t fix. I’ve decided that once I finish the orange & purple striped sweater, I’m going to work on finishing this beast. I think it would be a nice shawl to take on our honeymoon, so that is the new goal for it. I’ve been trying my best to stay monogamous to my big projects – I’m allowed an easy-knitting purse sock and one large project.
It will be a time-consuming shawl because I’m knitting it in laceweight when the pattern was written for fingering weight. I wanted a substantial wedding shawl, so I’m working a size bigger than the largest size in the pattern. I think I’ve got 8 repeats across the rows. I’m just about done with the fancy lace part on this end, then the longer middle bits are an easier design and don’t have the beads, so it might even be a portable project at that point. Or at least a ‘bring to work for break time’ project.
I really don’t know if P thought I was going to finish it when I started. He certainly didn’t discourage me, because I probably would have snapped. And he didn’t mention it on the wedding day at all, or even in the weeks before when I’d stopped working on it. He’s awesome like that.
