Take one last look at the green and leafy shawl as it currently looks and wave goodbye:
It’s not working. 
I think my idea would work if it was a larger shawl and I had more yarn to play with and room to manoeuvre, but this is a wee shawlette. So it’s being ripped back to the leaves and put in the corner while I think what to do with it.
Meanwhile, I have switched to tiny needles and fine yarn:
The Dream in Color Baby in “Pansy Golightly” won the Battle Of The Laceweight. 
I’m using 2.5mm needles which is the smallest I’ve ever used for laceweight yarn, but so far it’s working. And it’s not a really lacy lace yarn, IYSWIM. It has 700 yards per 100g, which puts it in the “light fingering” category – to me, anyway. (Does light fingering sound vaguely rude? 
) The pattern is one I’ve had charted out for a while and was never sure if it was worth knitting up as it is pretty plain. So I’m hoping a variegated yarn will make it special. 
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*Sniff* I liked the green leafy. Maybe because I’m so looking forward to a green leafy out of doors. But the purple is pretty gorgeous, too. It does look like pansies.
I’d been enjoying the green too but if a jobs worth doing etc and the purple does look lovely and lacy. Light fingering, made me smile but that’s probably my sense of humour, impure.
the purple is lovely. the green will re-appear like the grass when it’s time.