A Bluestocking Knits

"Step into the sun, step into the light!"

Finished "Forbes Forest" last night — it is now reposing behind the couch on a soft towel.  I like it, but I was beginning to think it would never end….

I could have used a bobble stylist for the photo shoot, as they had all come off the needles looking flat and rather half-hearted, and I had to fluff them up while it was damp.

So then, of course, I looked around for a new project.  I thought about the "Interlocking Balloons" from the same book, but didn’t want cables again.  Without much trouble, I found Truly Tasha’s Shawl by Nancy Bush, a free pattern online at The Woolly West.  I even had a Tasha Tudor book to hand for a first picture —

The yarn is the RYC Cashsoft DK I bought at GB Woollen in Taikoo Shing, a handsome smoky grey — very soft, very nice to knit with.  The yarn-overs at the edge are pretty in themselves, I see, but will in fact be used for picking up the lace border to come….