Debuting the finished Kiri Shawl

Now that I’ve spoken to my mother by phone and wished her a Happy Mother’s Day, I can show you photos of the completed Kiri Shawl.

I was inspired by a Kiri Shawl that the ADD knitter made and even bragged in an earlier post that it was easy enough to follow sans pattern. Like the ADD knitter said, you can always see where you are in the pattern at any given point…and I could…until I got to the edging.

Somehow the edging didn’t quite line up.

It got a little hinky and just a wee bit offset…I looked at the chart several times but it didn’t seem to jive and in the end my desire to be finished with it got the better of me. I could have ripped it back but that’s an extreme hassle with lace and I was loathe to do it.

I suppose this project has been mistake ridden from the start.

No one will know or see the mistake until I point it out to them and I’ll have to restrain myself from doing that. I think most of us have a tendency to point out our mistakes but we shouldn’t. We’ve got to bite our tongues and put a halt to this self-deprecating practice.

Maybe that’s why I sent it to my mother. She’ll never see the mistakes until I point them out. Mothers don’t care about our mistakes. They love us unconditionally, despite our mistakes, and don’t all mothers love getting handmade gifts from their children? I think it starts with the first clay hand print in Kindergarten. However, when I spoke to my mother this morning, she didn’t say a word about the shawl. That’s my mother for you. At least she got the package and that’s all that really mattered to me.

After fellow knitter (and soon to be PSU graduate), Jessa, with her gorgeous golden tresses finished modeling the shawl recently, she was kind enough to throw the log cabin blanket over her shoulders so I could show you all the progress on that.

It’s not quite finished and progress is slow because I’ve been making the stripes progressively wider and each one takes nearly a full skein of Patons. However, each time I throw it on my bed to see if it’s big enough, it doesn’t quite cover the Queen sized bed.

I suppose I’ll keep on knitting until I grow tired of it. Or it gets too hot. For the time being, it makes for great meditative, mindless, soothing garter knitting.