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Amanda (scroll down to see) let me buy one of her very first colorways she dyed up for her then-new Etsy shop.  It’s brighter than this in real life, a very cheerful shade; the flash mutes it here. The shawl pin holding it on the wheel for me is handblown glass, a gift from my old friend Sheila Ernst from when I saw her at Stitches.
And then that yarn sat there in my stash, patiently waiting its rightful turn, with a false start I finally frogged. Till Amanda wrote a post about how her business was doing that sparked my pulling that gorgeous green out of the stash and casting on to see how far I could stretch my one little skein to go. Normally, I would have used needles a size or so smaller, and I would have cast on more stitches, but I needed all the length I could get.
It was good to see it back where it belonged. Her picture (note the beautiful brunette) is way more fun than mine.
Specifications: size 10 needles, the faster-version Julia from Wrapped in Comfort through the yoke and increase rows, then the Michelle shawl through the main body.
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Ooh- beau-ti-ful! What a glorious green, well-interpreted in your knitting.
Comment by Barbara-Kay 07.21.08 @ 12:10 pmThe shawl is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous.
As a side note, Kristine and I were on the bus together this morning and chatted about you :>)
Comment by Joansie 07.21.08 @ 12:38 pmI am looking forward to wearing said shawl in a couple weeks. Even in the summer I can be seen wearing a shawl – you know how it goes when you have bad circulation!
Thank you! I’m honored to be the subject of a blog post of yours, as well as the proud owner of TWO Alison Hyde originals!
Comment by Amanda 07.21.08 @ 2:20 pmWhat a beautiful shawl! And thanks for the link to Sheila’s site – I’m drooling over her ‘don’t drop’ spindles and wondering how long one would survive in my hands. I’ve already managed to shatter a ceramic spindle that I loved (sigh).
Comment by Cynthia 07.21.08 @ 3:20 pmIt’s lovely.
I am so sorry to hear of Ruth’s loss. It makes this on-line community seem so much smaller when one of us is suddenly gone.
Comment by Momo Fali 07.21.08 @ 3:56 pmThe shawl looks absolutely stunning in your picture. *wanders off to check it out on Amanda’s blog brb*
Its Beautiful on Amanda’s blog, the color ant the pattern go together beautifully!
So lovely! I’ll have to request that she brings it along when four of us “retreat” together in September… (Isn’t her yarn the greatest? Have you tried her alpaca?)
Comment by Channon 07.22.08 @ 7:02 amAny day that that Shawl Closure gets the honor of keeping a shawl that you made snug on something…is a Very Good Day Indeed!
The shawl is So Lovely…Ahhh!!
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