A Belated Happy New Year!

How appropriate that I should start the new year - belatedly - with a belated Advent Calendar Shawl .... I just couldn't get it together - and Advent is not the best time for me to start new projects. So here is my Advent Calendar Shawl
It was not my favourite knit. I discovered and confirmed as I knit this, that I do not enjoy knitting sampler type shawls with spacers in between. I prefer shawls and stole that flow. There were lots of sections where I enjoyed the lace design - just not the choppiness of it! I'll know for another time. This picture doesn't show the whole shawl -- it's 84" long by 24" wide

It was knit in Knit Picks Shadow, colourway Sunset and took just under 1000 yards of yarn. That's because I skipped 3 of the 24 days. The pattern can be found here on Ravelry.

My reward for not quitting was a much quicker knit - and smaller shawlette. It took 1 skein of sockweight yarn. I used Unwind's SeaWool. The colourway tag is lost!
Here is Pimpelliese

Best of all -- both were knit from stash yarn so I can feel virtuous. The yarn stretches when wet, so my finished shawlette is 181 cm X 40 cm at the deepest point.

Now I need to decide what will be shawl #3 for this year. I've signed up for 11 shawls in 2011. Now I feel somewhat caught up, and more as if it might be possible to accomplish it!