shawl underway

Against expectations, the yarn for my Estonian Garden Wrap arrived, and I've begun knitting.

As predicted, the middle part (which is where you start...go figure) is zipping along. I've completed 4 pattern repeats out of the requisite 41, and I only started yesterday.

The yarn is darker than I'd hoped, but since I had no other yarn at hand, I started anyway. The color is growing on me.

I've never knit lace before. This stuff is amazing. Wow.

It's back to the lace drawing board

I'm still angsting about my wonderful laceweight wool/silk yarn not being the right color. I called Village Wools in Albuquerque, and they tell me that they carry that yarn. The very nice woman on the phone was kind enough to get some of the "white" yarn and hold it next to a white piece of paper, and tell me that the yarn is not as white as the paper. Perfect. That's exactly what I want.

They are now measuring off 4 ounces for me, which they will mail to me today. If this were Massachusetts, I'd expect it tomorrow, since it's only travelling an hour. Since this is New Mexico, I expect to have it by the end of the week.

Then I begin the shawl all over again, but that's OK. I will call the first one "a learning experience."