Year of Shawls: February Aeolian

I'm still going strong with my Dozen in 20dozen quest. My goal is to knit 12 shawls this year, one for every month. Well, more or less every month.

My February shawl took me til August to finish, but hey at least its finished. Here it is:

I did the Aeolian shawl. There are two sizes. I decided to do the larger one.

I don't why. I think I might be a bit crazy.

...not crazy good...

There are 2250 8mm beads in the larger version.

...like I said...I'm just a bit crazy...

I dyed the yarn myself using Indigo. I love the color. Turned out really well. Problem was I felt like Tobias Funke

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Every time I picked up my shawl, I blue myself. 

Everything around me got blue too. 

I named my shawl Indigo Montoya.

Year of Shawls: January 198 YoH

This year I decided to do something completely different. I decided to knit a shawl a month. 

I had been feeling rather isolated and unchallenged with my knitting. I found myself getting bored. It was starting to be more of a mindless chore. I needed something different. So, on Ravelry I joined a group called dozen shawls in 20dozen. I've had a Ravelry account for years, but I had never used it to connect with people. I always just sorta...lurked. (Very fitting once you consider that my username is somethingslurking)

So, with all of that, here's my January shawl. 

The pattern is called 198 yards of Heaven. I loved knitting this shawl.

I've also given myself another challenge. I'm not allowed to buy new yarn. (...Well...its not a set in stone rule...) I need to knit from my stash. So far this year I'm doing a pretty good job with that one. I did buy yarn for my February and May shawls. In my mind, I can justify both of those purchases. That's all that really matters.

I used one skein of NaturallyCaron.com Spa in Ocean Spray.

I'm really happy that I put myself out there on Ravelry. I've actually started going to a knit night out here in Las Vegas. My sister's been pestering me for a while about getting a blog. I think Ravelry was just the motivation I needed to get this thing up and going.