flyinmysoup

ah spring. it's one of my favorite seasons (right behind fall), and i'm so glad it's finally here after the terribly dreary winter we just had in Indiana. i can take a snowy, cold winter--that's just lovely--but rainy, just yucky ones get me down. so, here it is, just into the first strains of spring. too early to start on the gardening i'm itching to do now that we have an actual, honest-to-goodness house and yard, but the switch to Daylight Savings Time means it's now not getting dark until 8 or so. what's a girl to do? knit lace. that's the answer. the knitting project that spans this sloppy, still slightly frosty gap. whoot!
i am still diligently slaving away on the Fir Cone shawl that i started, oh, two or so years ago. really, i'm beginning to suspect that it shall be never ending. as guilty as i feel about it, i had to start a new project.
enter the Peacock Feathers Shawl. after browsing on Ravelry one night and seeing many lovely examples of this shawl, i picked up the pattern at my friendly LYS Stitches & Scones. JOY!!! though i have the most perfect color of the called for yarn (Jaggerspun Zephyr in a delicious teal-y blue) i decided to use some Skacel Merino Lace in colorway 669 (another lovely teal). i also downsized from 3.5 mm needles to 2.25's. i'm hoping that these two changes will leave me with a shawl that is itself downsized from the 88" monstrosity it is written as.
anywho, i've gotten through the first chart.