Finally!

I finally finished the Bridgewater shawl from Jared Flood's Made in Brooklyn book.  A great project but the edging took forever.  It didn't help that after knitting the lace border part in the round and reading the chart one way, you then knit the edging back and forth.  So when reading the chart for the edging, I kept reading it from right to left when I should have been reading the purl rows from left to right.  About mid-way through the first side this dawned on me.  The pattern this way was actually pretty enough so I debated calling it improvisation and continuing on but in the end frogged.  I'm glad I did since the correct way was not only faster but, surprise, surprise, looks nicer too.

I am really smitten with this book.  I've made 4 projects from it and they have all been really great.  I like the way he incorporates a little more thought-provoking construction into the projects.  Despite this shawl taking a long time, I didn't get bored of it the way I have with other projects.  I'm thinking of a couple of in progress sweaters that fit into that category.

On the quilting front, I'm still feeling uninspired by the diamond quilt-in-progress so I organized my fabric stash yesterday.  That was both fun and distressing.  Fun to play with fabrics obviously.  Distressing in that I have enough fabric to start my own store!  Perhaps a slight exaggeration.  I guess I could say it now rivals my yarn stash.