

Its cheap, comes in a variety of pretty colors and they make great dishcloths. And it takes only a few hours to turn out a finished product. Though I probably won’t be able to get though all the cotton in my possession in the next few years. I don’t even bother putting a majority of them on Ravelry.

Pattern: Icarus Shawl from Interweave Knits Summer 2006
Yarn: cheap lace yarn from China, overdyed by me, held doubled
Needles: #4 Harmony
Time to Complete: 16 days
Gripes: I was trying to make a dent into my pounds of lace yarn, this project didn’t really do it. Time to knit more lacy items!
On a side note, I got my car washed by no less than eight different people, all for only 6 bucks! It was a full service wash that included two people vacuuming the interior, two people hand scrubbing the exterior, a run through the car wash, and four people hand drying the exterior while also cleaning the dash and everything inside. Only in Brooklyn!
My first and favorite pair of Smooshy socks bites the dust after only 3 months. I had an inkling that it wouldn’t last very long since the yarn was so soft and thin. Now I’ve got to make alternate plans for my remaining 3 skeins of Smooshy, since I don’t want any more socks to receive this fate so soon. 

Pattern: Swallowtail shawl, Interweave Knits fall 2006
Yarn: Malabrigo lace in Brilliante
Needle: size 4 Knitpicks harmony
Time to complete: One week in February
Gripes: Its small, I call it a mini swallowtail
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I took this to St. Louis and this was the only thing I completed out of the three projects I brought with me. I would have gone down to visit the Arch but it was yucky out and I didn’t bring an umbrella. My student host bailed on me so I had to get a hotel room. I had my choices of hotels, I could stay at a Holiday Inn in a not so nice part of town or for $20 more I get to stay at the Crowne Plaza overlooking the Arch on the 28th floor. Guess which I chose.

Though, I had a nice view of the Arch, I would have gotten more amenities (ie internet) at the cheaper motel. I don’t understand why you pay more, you end up getting less. Well, I did get one of the best night sleeps, the bed was awesome, I had two of them. And it would have been an awesome blocking board had I remembered that it would be an awesome place to block my shawl and brought my blocking pins. Alas I didn’t the shawl had to wait until I got home. Its a small shawl, small, really small, I could only wear it like a kerchief. My current lace project, the Icarus Shawl, is going to turn out huge to compensate for the petiteness of the Swallowtail Shawl.
