This was fast! I just ordered this yarn. On Thursday. From Colourway in England. And here it is, in my house in New Jersey on Monday. Talk about speedy service–and it had to go through Customs, too!

This is wonderful, because now I can start my “Nothing but a T” (though not, really, until I finish at least one of the projects I’m working on!). The Coral yarn is a little pinker than I’d hoped it would be–I thought it would have a little more orange to it–but it’s still a nice color. The khaki on the left is the one I picked to be the accent color. The four skeins of green Kid Silk Haze? Well, the price for the yarn was really good, and I thought it would be nice to make something else with it . . . it’s about the only fuzzy yarn that I’ve ever liked, and so soft and light!

I started the edging on my Brooks Farm shawl last night. So far, I’ve done the entire thing in garter stitch, with paired increases at the center and at the ends of every other row, to make a nice, elongated triangle. I wanted it to be simple, both for the sake of knitting, but also because I wanted the focus to be the yarn, not the fancy stitch work. You’ll remember that the two yarns looked like this. (I really love that photo–the colors are practically perfect, and you just want to dive right in there!)

Still, I couldn’t quite let it go without doing something a little special along the edge! So I’m doing this nice, little Diamond Edging. Except, at this gauge, it doesn’t look little at all. It adds a nice fillip, though, don’t you think?

(Oh, and interestingly, that same site has this same, exact lace pattern with a completely different name. Same exact thing. Makes you wonder how many other, identical lace patterns are floating around out there!)

The lace has some K3-togethers in it, too, which are particularly challenging with thick yarn–not to mention two strands of yarn. In fact, I’ve been slipping the first stitch to my right needle, doing a K2-tog and then sliding that slipped stitch back over, instead of trying to knit all three stitches at once. It’s working much better. The amount of edging you see, though, is about an hour’s worth of knitting. I’m sure it will pick up a little now I’m familiar with the pattern, but I’ve still got a ways to go. Now I’m trying to decide if I should just let my Peacock rest until I’ve got this completely done, or should I continue working on both of them . . . or, you know, just knit as the mood strikes each night! (Yeah, like you can’t guess which one it will be.)

And, do you know, it’s May now, and I still haven’t gotten my first package from my KR secret pal? The one that’s supposed to arrive in March/April? I admit I’m a little disappointed, but am trying to have faith! I did, at least, get a Comment from her at the beginning of April, so I know she’s out there somewhere . . . (grin)

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