Today… We’ll see how things develop. But I think I know now why I had to make two.

On the second go-round on my aunt’s shawl, I carefully wrote down, checked, double-checked and cross-examined every word going onto that page: do you promise to knit the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you shawl?

Yes. (But I’ll knit it again and again. Trust but verify.)

I am close to giddy at how gorgeous it came out–and, for all the pain that it was in the writing of it, the fact that it’s reproducible now.

And I am grateful to all those across the ages in whose honor I shall wait till Tuesday to mail it.