Intro

Hiya. I'm Dana, I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and I've been knitting for, what, 3 years now? I have done a bit of lace before, so hopefully this shawl will work out.

I'm going to be knitting the Lacy Lattice Stole for my mom for Christmas and the Peacock Feathers Shawl for myself. I've bought the patterns already and swatched for the LLS:




(Yup, my stitch pattern is off in those swatches - you can see it more clearly about halfway up the larger swatch. It's hard to swatch only one repeat of the lace pattern because the increases and decreases move back and forth between repeats. Thus I'm off by one stitch for the top half.)

I'm going to try to make it in Koigu P516, as you can see above. I'm just waiting for my local Koigu stockist to actually get my order in - every time I go in, they claim it's "in the mail". Fortunately, I haven't paid them for it yet, so I'm free to walk away - however, that leaves me without Koigu. I may be forced to find an alternative, and my mom hates mohair..

Thanks to Liz for setting this all up! If I don't get the Koigu in time, I'll buy something to make the PFS from.