Update

Well, all of the sudden my lace shawl seems to have grown enormously. I'm just about to do my increase round which will take me to 576 stitches. I am so excited. Having done a few jumpers with lace detailing, my lace socks and now this shawl; I feel like it was just too easy a project. Now I know that I needed an easy shawl to get confident. It's done, I feel confident. It's difficult to know how big it will be when I I wash it and block it so i think that I will do a few more repeats after the increase. I am very excited.

Things that keep me humble

I am so absolutely determined to get good at lace. I have now embarqued on a challenging lace shawl project. I am doing a pi shawl as per Elizabeth Zimmermann intructions. I was just going to make it plain in between increases but as my friend said..."it's not that hard you know" so I took that as a challenge and here goes. I hope to finish it this year so that when my eldest daughter Emily decides to start a family she will have a shawl for the baby and it can stay in the family as an heirloom.

I am knitting it in a natural thinner than 2 ply wool. Am not really into natural colours but I might be able to dye it later.

I will have to keep blogging aboot it so that people don't think I've forgotten about it.