The Many Happy Returns Shawl, complete!
With some creative editing of timestamps, it will even look like I posted this on Tuesday. *ahem*
Here's what the MHR Shawl looked like before I blocked it. A lot of people think lace looks like crap before it's blocked; I think it looked pretty good, honestly. This is a very geometric pattern, and it's based on garter stitch, so it lies quite flat. Except for the border.
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Yarn used: Bare Merino Laceweight from KnitPicks. Needles: 4mm.
Here it is pinned out and wet-blocked. It was dry just in time for the trip!
And here it is in action. :)
It was perfect -- the day was wet and cold, but we had to go outside anyway -- had we not, we would have missed the ceremonial firing of the cannon!!! However, my shawl kept me dry and warm and comfortable. Yay!
Thursday: the finished Obama socks! I may dig up some pictures of me working on the Obama socks, too, as people took pictures of me knitting all weekend long. (Trivia: It does wonderful things for your ego when Oleg Volk says that pictures of you are cute.)
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