EZ Three Lace Shawl

I have picked up my Elizabeth Zimmerman Pi Shawl thi evening. It took me a while to suss out where I was and to make sure that I'd not made any mistakes. Even though I understood the pattern when I first started it, it seems so much clearer now, after doing the spiral doily. I now think I will get it done a lot quicker than what I originally thought. I am tempted still to look for a really big lacy project and purposefully dye some yarn for it. My head is full of shawls and lace knitting. How long this born-again fetish will last is anyones guess. I'm enjoying it at the moment!

MJ has had an unsettled evening, well a couple of hours in fairness. She woke up and didn't mean to wake up, then found it difficult to settle back to sleep, although she did try. She has settled back to sleep now.

I've had a box full of sugarcraft equipment arrive today. I ordered it from china, via ebay. I am pleased with it all - and at a fraction of the cost buying it in this country. I am looking forward to using the stuff. I'm not quite in the zone to sugarcraft at the moment. I will cajole myself around soon.

EZ Three Lace Shawl Cast On

HK's back is still bad.  He is mentioning about going to a GP and getting is sorted.  I'm sceptical, he won't rush to the GP Surgery I don't think.  Mary-Jane was quite tired today, she again spent some of the night awake, coughing.  She did have a good run around the house this afternoon - a walk in the house, as we say.  However come tea time, she had no interest in her tea, and ate only a banana instead.

I went to Fobbles Knit & Natter for a few hours.  It was a bit thin on the ground, enjoyable nontheless.  I worked on Sereknitty and chatted alot.  In fact we all chatted alot.  In the afternoon I was going to visit DP but recieved a phone call saying not to come as the roads were very icy and dangerous.  Needless to say, I didn't go.

This evening, I have given into my Shawl Pre-Occupation Cravings and Cast On.  I decided on the pattern I had seen first.  Elizabeth Zimmerman's Three Lace Shawl from her Knitters Almanac.  It's the one on the front cover.   It is a Pi Shawl, so that will go towards my annual goals that I have set myself.  I am using a Shetland Wool, which I think is two ply.  I'm using 3.5 needles and have 144 stitches so far.  I'm on the fourth round of that section, about to start the lace pattern.  The colour is 'Midnight', black with tiny hints of coloured fleck.  I bought it a few years ago off ebay.  I didn't pay too much for it, I think probably more in postage!  It weighs 525g including the cone.  Tons and Tons of meterage.  I am interested in how much the completed shawl will weigh.  That little discovery will take a few months at least to discover!  Very much worth it though.