This is the shawl that doesn’t end
Yes, it goes on and on, my friends!
One day I started knitting it,
not knowing how it was,
and I’ll just go on knitting it forever just because…
Cast on for a wedding shawl for my daughter’s godmother with the only requests being that it be useable as both a wedding shawl and potentially a christening shawl down the pike. So we stick with the traditional wedding white/ivory theme, and go with white wool and pearl beads. No problem.
We, (this being the royal we) being obnoxious knitters to ourselves in ways we never fully understand until knee deep in kimchee, decide that “simple” is not the word of the day when knitting a potential heirloom. So we contact Goddess Knits, beg for a PDF of a serial shawl that doesn’t appear to be released in PDF as of that time, and because Goddess Knits is AWESOME, we get the Samhain shawl precisely as requested for a marvelously reasonable price.
Have minor qualm upon viewing that there are five charts. Some with “repeat center section six times” notations. Pshaw, we say to ourselves! That’s 175 rows from here, or something equally unfathomable! It will fine, and we have months and months to do this!
Cue music from that shark movie.
Shortening this rediculous saga, suffice it to say that the wedding is this coming Saturday. Our flight to New Orleans is tomorrow. We are feeling stubbornly as though we cannot block the shawl in our hotel room, despite the honorable traditions set by many amazing and fabulous knitters before us, primarily because we don’t think we can talk the TSA into letting us have our blocking wires with us.
So it’s now or never, folks. Ten or so rows to go, it’s GOT to get finished today and blocked tonight.
Apply Mission Impossible theme and…out.