Well, *that* was a miserable damn failure!
I couldn't get the shawl done in time, so I figured that I'd just dye the yarn when I dyed the shirt I wanted to wear it with.
Big mistake.
The shirt? Is beautiful. A little more muted than I'd like but there's a vertical stripe pattern woven into it that I hadn't noticed until I had the nice green color to show it off.
The shawl? What I have of it is fine. I still have it, might decide to make it pass for a scarf or something later.
The yarn? Blech. Uneven color, spots which were still white (and this after boiling it for almost 2 hours then letting it sit for another eight) and l.i.n.t.y -- linty! Just the five minutes I spent trying to start untangling it set me off sneezing.
So I brought the black mistake stitch rib Faroese-shaped shawl I'm working on (this one has a long story behind it) with me and chipped away at it a little in the 10 hours I spent in the car. I'm aiming for voluminous, and I've barely started, so it takes me about 45 minutes per row, for a total of, like, 12 rows completed.
Big mistake.
The shirt? Is beautiful. A little more muted than I'd like but there's a vertical stripe pattern woven into it that I hadn't noticed until I had the nice green color to show it off.
The shawl? What I have of it is fine. I still have it, might decide to make it pass for a scarf or something later.
The yarn? Blech. Uneven color, spots which were still white (and this after boiling it for almost 2 hours then letting it sit for another eight) and l.i.n.t.y -- linty! Just the five minutes I spent trying to start untangling it set me off sneezing.
So I brought the black mistake stitch rib Faroese-shaped shawl I'm working on (this one has a long story behind it) with me and chipped away at it a little in the 10 hours I spent in the car. I'm aiming for voluminous, and I've barely started, so it takes me about 45 minutes per row, for a total of, like, 12 rows completed.