sweet splash

I made my mommy a shawlette ...


It's little. And as light as air. When I lay it down, it floated atop the blades of grass ...


Does the color look familiar? It's the same yarn as my pink Vermont Shawl, madelinetosh Prairie in "Mulled Wine." Before I gave it as promised to my friend Amy, my mom wore it beautifully to Rhinebeck and let it be known that she quite liked it. That, in fact, she'd like the very same shawl for herself. She said this so sweetly that I couldn't resist!


But, sadly, I couldn't find another skein of the yarn. So I took the rest of that skein of yarn -- every last yard -- and knit up this shawlette for her. It's still based on the Vermont Shawl, except that I did stockinette-with-eyelets instead of the first section of lace, and I only got through a portion of the second section of lace.


I've been knitting this here and there since November. Finally bound off at the end of May. Little by little, things get done.