I’ve spent quite a bit of time on my allotment recently, but I am still knitting I promise! Currently on my needles is a pattern by Cath Ward called Lazy Ocean Shawl. I’m making it out of Fyberspates Scrumptious Lace a luxurious, 55% merino and 45% silk blend.
I cast on sometime in March (I’ve gotten really slack at updating my project pages on Ravelry and I can’t remember when exactly). Its on 2.75mm needles and laceweight yarn so I’m not expecting to finish it any time soon either, but I’m past the halfway mark and really enjoying taking my time knitting it.
The pattern only has four other projects on Ravelry but I can’t imagine that staying that way for long as its a lovely design and well written with both charts and written instructions. In fact, I recommend checking out Cath Wards pattern page as its full of pretty lace shawls and scarves that are all available for free.
I made a few modifications; I added some width, omitted a couple of the eyelet stitches at the edges and didn’t do the border at the start as I wanted to have as much of the stole in the lazy ocean pattern as possible. If you’re interested in the details of the mods, you can find them on my project page.
I think of this as the ugly duckling stage of lace knitting; it doesn’t look like much now, but I know this will be beautiful when finished.
