Let me start of by acknowledging that this is indeed a post about new projects, without there being a post about finished projects. I swear though that I very much finished my New Girl skirt, however my pure hatred for weaving in ends has led me to not blocking the skirt only until yesterday. As we speak the skirt is trying it’s very best to get dry as quickly as possible so that I can take some nice picture of it and post these to the blog.

So as you can see, my new cast ons are fully justified! And as soon as I weaved in the last end I immediately started with some new projects. The first one I cast one is a purple Wilshire shawl. Now usually I am a very very selfish knitter, and part of that is that I am rubbish at planning my knits. So 3 months before someone’s birthday I think, oh this would be so nice to knit for them! And then this thought disappears until 2 days before said persons birthday, when it is already too late for me to finish it on time and I run off to the stores to buy a gift.

Not this time though! This shawl has to be birthday gifted at the beginning of october and I am super determined to get this done on time. I fell in love with this pattern and I really can see the recipient wearing it as well. And the yarn.. oh the yarn.. It’s Lana Grossa Lace Merino in the colour Lilla and it is so soft and a pleasure to knit with. It’s a good thing I am so bad at estimating how much yarn I need because I bought a whopping 1600 meters (1750 yards) with the idea of making one shawl out of it. But I’m fairly confident I’ll have more than enough left to make myself something nice with it as well.

I did have some big problems with this project so far, I already frogged it 4 times before even getting to the lace part. I think it was too easy at that point, and when something it too easy my mind switches of and I make unnecessary mistakes. So to get away from it a bit I started something that I’ve been meaning to do a long time, namely to learn how to knit socks two at a time toe up.

I picked up this sock yarn (Maxi Ringel in 7735) while I was in Switzerland and since it came in two 50 grams skeins and I might possibly want to make knee socks if the yardage allows it, this seemed like the perfect time to learn. And guess what? It’s super easy! I had a lot of help from this tutorial, which explains all the steps very detailed and with clear photos. It feels so magical to me, I’m just knitting plain old stockinette but the combination of the striped yarn and the two at a time technique I’m getting two socks done at once that seem quite special. Maybe I will be converted from my top down DPN kind of ways.