I did the yarn harvest 2012!

I took photos inconsistently throughout the day, but me and Aliza went crawling for Yarn Harvest 2012! 

We drove around to Black Sheep Yarns, 88 Stitches, Knit and Stitch shoppe, Baaad Anna's, Gina Brown's yarn & Urban yarns! 

Some of Aliza's bounty from Black Sheep Yarns! 

This is what the day looked like mostly. 

But then Ikea breakfast/lunch happened. Aliza modelling some mediocre Ikea chocolate! 

The Knit & Stitch shoppe had this amazing wall of yarn! And hanging-up baby which piqued my interest! 

Our final shop was Gina Brown's yarn, which had A WALL OF MALABRIGO 

Look at this amazing wall! SO PRETTY! 

So overall the day was pretty great! 

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Crazy bottom-up shawl

I started knitting Damask, a really beautiful bottom-up shawl, here I stole a picture off the internet of it for you. Here's a link to the pattern on ravelry.

I have never knit a bottom-up shawl. The premise of this shawl is that you cast on a huge number of stitches, something between two hundred and three hundred depending on which size you decide to knit... You're casting on the frilly bottom of the shawl instead of starting with a small amount of stitches and working downwards. 

Mine looks like this... 

I'm knitting it out of madelinetosh DK in Toasted Pecan. It's lovely yarn. Let's hope I don' fuck this shawl up! 

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