Quick Update

This is only meant to be a quick update as I've been so naughty with blogging recently. Last weekend saw Bingley show and this time I had my main entry prepared four months ahead of schedule. I was not going to be repeating the 3am on the day finish again!

I did not block it though until the Saturday in order that it didn't have any chance of going saggy beforehand. Here is it blocked out in (wait for it) sunlight ;)

And here is it unpinned on the floor.
Its the Fibertrends Sheep Shawl. I decided to do it in a multicolour as I wanted something different than the plain one colour and didn't want to use variagated. The yarn is Jamiesons Ultra.

Here was my second entry. I had made it for a friend for her birthday and used KnitWitches hand-dyed silk. I used a pattern from the knitting calendar from 2006. Unfortunately it didn't gain an award but my friend liked it which was the most important thing. It was over a month late getting to her but I had to break off from it because I had to do a scarf for her grandmother (see earlier blog entry) and the day I finished it she had gone on holiday for a fortnight.

I got second place with my shawl again this year and am hoping that next year will see me coming first. I do however have Keighley show in two weeks and the village next to mine is having a show the weekend after so there is still a possibility for a first this year.