I can’t believe it’s already Wednesday! Thanks to the Bank Holiday weekend and Mr B taking an extra day off yesterday (we went to Legoland on what turned out to be the wettest day of the week, naturally!), I’m all of a kerfuffle.
But at least I have found a lace pattern!
This is the Prairie Rose Lace Shawl by the wonderful Evelyn Clark. Pattern available from The Knitter’s Book of Wool or The Knitter Issue 16.
Roo also suggested Miralda’s Shawl from Knitted Lace of Estonia which almost made me change my mind again. It’s a gorgeous pattern. I even have my own 
and it indeed makes a beautiful gift. But, like Ene’s Scarf, it’s worked from the edging upwards and can only be knitted in one size. So once you cast on, you’re committing yourself to knitting the whole thing. Whereas the Prairie Rose Shawl gives me a little more leeway; if I find I’m short of time, I can do fewer pattern repeats.
I’m knitting it with Jaggerspun Zephyr Wool-Silk 2/18 in “Aegean Blue” which is so far delicious to knit with. Slightly slippery and no splitting. I had planned to use it for the Creatures of the Reef Shawl. Ironically, that’s another bottom-up shawl, but it wasn’t on my list of possibilities anyway as I think it’s a bit of an acquired taste. I love it myself, but maybe not everyone wants to be covered in crabs…
Incidentally, I never did write about what happened to the Ene’s Scarf I knitted. I wore it back in March last year to my booking-in appointment at the hospital and during the process – which was very long and involved lots of prodding – I took it off and hung it on the back of my chair. Well, you can guess what happened. I forgot to pick it up. 
I rang the hospital, checked with Lost Property and all sorts, but it was gone. I hope the thieving scumbag dishonest person who is now wearing it appreciates it… one day I will knit another in the same yarn and pretend it’s the old one. 
