There hasn't been really good porn weather lately. Motley the Marvelous Montadale has yet to have his day in the sun. But I brought my camera and a couple of goodies to work today, and my coworker kindly pitched in to take pictures in the 5 minutes of hazy sunshine we seem to be allotted today. I have a lovely garden right outside my office door.
Ugh, now that I'm looking at it, that point looks like it's giving me a wedgie. Trust me, no thongs were involved in the taking of this photograph. This porn is strictly fiber-related.
I also felt the need to take gratuitous images of the shawl in repose on a lovely stone bench. Just so you can see and appreciate the Indigo Moon fiber. I think of it as the shawl freely expressing itself.
So, now that I've finished and even blocked (with the help of two three-year-olds, no lie) the shawl, I'm on to something completely different. A shawl!
I cast on for Birch last night while putting the kids to bed. It's good knitting time, at least when they're not trying to kill each other.
So, I get it now. Why everyone keeps comparing KSH to a controlled substance. It's just...just...oh my god. What can I say?
Gorgeous! Nice setting, too. That purple just jumps right off of the screen!
So I've got two skeins of a non-Rowan mohair/silk--what to do with it? It's not quite enough for Birch.
Posted by: Heidi | June 30, 2005 at 12:14 PM
Oh no!!! Not a birch! I've already been drooling over it on other blogs...I just wish I was a shawl person...
Posted by: Carry | June 30, 2005 at 03:22 PM
I keep thinking that a more profound word will surface and I won't keep using the same "oh! it's beautiful!" phrase, but that's all that comes to mind when I see the finished shawl! the colors are beautiful, and I love the texture that the pattern formed.
I'm avoiding a Kidsilk/Cracksilk comment. I'm in no financial situation to be investing in more yarn right now and will get around to trying it out later this summer (after I'm "paid" for being a student - the lovely living disbursement comes through). By then I think I'll be over doing socks and will want to be working on lace...
Posted by: Kristen | June 30, 2005 at 06:12 PM
Love it! It's gorgeous! I googling the pattern right now. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Cara | June 30, 2005 at 07:46 PM
Beautiful beautiful! Love the color of your new Crack too hehe
Posted by: Stacie | June 30, 2005 at 08:29 PM
What a fabulous use of Indigo Moon. Delicious.
As for Birch. Well, it was inevitable, wasn't it? Welcome to the crackhouse.
Posted by: claudia | June 30, 2005 at 09:59 PM
Hey, it came out the perfect size! It's great!
And would you STOP already with the kidsilk? How much willpower do you think I HAVE???
Posted by: Katy | June 30, 2005 at 10:00 PM
Oh, it turned out just lovely! And the KSH? Yep, addictive . . . but in such a good way. Now that I've pretty much decided not to finish the Elfin cardigan, I get to figure out what to do with the KSH that would have been those scads of ruffles . . . gosh, isn't that awful?
Posted by: Deb | June 30, 2005 at 10:22 PM
Hey ... is that a familiar happy valley women's college with the same name as the local "mountain" range?
Posted by: The Feminist Mafia | July 01, 2005 at 08:29 AM
Mmmmm. I want some. Gorgeous completed shawl, too!
Posted by: Kat | July 01, 2005 at 08:37 AM
The shawl is beautiful! :)
Posted by: Helen | July 02, 2005 at 08:29 PM