Baby Shawl Flurry
I`m happy to see the backside of Christmas. My partner says I`m a humbug, but I`m really not. I just think the holidays are a huge amount of work for women in general and a crazy expense overall. However... onward, ever onward, knitters of the world. Now it`s time to treat yourselves to a nice skein of something special and kick back for the next couple of months.
Since the beginning of November, I`ve been working on an heirloom baby shawl for a young friend who`s having her first baby. Because I was working on the Boot Buddies at the same time, the shawl got put into the background for a little while. The baby was due at Christmas and is now overdue, so I`ve got my skates on and I`m moving as fast as I can!
I`ve got 15 of the 16 squares finished, with the last one on the needles as you can see from the photo. But there`s still the seaming and then the border to do. Eeeeeek! At this point, I don`t expect to beat her new daughter`s arrival but at least she`ll have it within her first month in this world.
I added an extra round to each square whereby I picked up 43 stitches along each side and them cast them off loosely -- worth the extra work in the long run IMHO because it`s quicker to join them with a Kitchener stitch afterwards. The other photo is from the pattern. Hopefully, mine will look as nice. Cheers all!
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