Here’s a look at my Maplewing shawl progress. I know, it’s not really that obviously different than it was last time, but trust me, there IS progress here. I’m into section C, about halfway through the first repeat, but the rows are getting progressively smaller (finally), so I keep expecting that it’s going to FEEL faster any time.

I really need to get this done, too, because I theoretically have another shawl waiting in the wings. I say “theoretically” because (1) I don’t actually have the yarn yet and (2) I only have one, tiny piece of the pattern.

Let me explain.

Last month, Susan at MVFF posted about their special Dyer-of-the-Month offer and showed this gorgeous colorway from the folks at Unique Sheep. A colorway whose picture I didn’t think to save, so I can’t show you what it looked like, but trust me when I tell you it was stunning. It was based on one of Susan’s Martha’s Vineyard photos and was yarn that shaded from beach sand down through ocean blue–because, yes, it’s one of the Gradiance Colors–a series of handpainted yarn colors you really need to see to believe. I held out as long as I could, but you already know that I love putting blues and golden browns together. I also can’t resist colors that blend from one shade to another. It’s a week spot. So I took some of the money I got for selling my Lendrum and bought the yarn. I’m just not sure when it’s going to arrive.

But, there’s more! The Unique Sheep is doing one of those mystery knit-alongs for a Secret Garden shawl. All I know is that it’s designed to be knit in one of their gradiance colors (or some other yarn, if you choose) and that it’s based on the circular Pi shawl. And that the pattern will arrive in tiny, weekly batches in my email over the next however-many weeks. I’ll just be starting well after everyone else because not only  has my yarn not arrived, but I HAVE to finish my Maplewing first. You KNOW that I can’t have two lace projects going at once!

I actually got a little plying done tonight, too. I’ve been having the hardest time finding time to spend at my wheel lately, but I took a little bit tonight to work on this bobbin of yarn. It’s not quite done, but it looks good … if a little underplied. I might decide to send it back through the wheel to add a little more twist … or not! We’ll see what I think when it’s completely done. (The fiber is from Jessica, called “Thinking About Fall.”)

You know how I’ve told you how Chappy loves to steal things like facecloths, napkins, and, say, slippers? He hit the mother lode the other night and got FOUR of them. Three of which he carried from Mom’s open closet down the hallway, and one which he left just outside their bedroom. (We’re thinking he was tired by then.) On the plus side, he made his grandma laugh when she came upstairs and saw him with all his loot.

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