FO: Swallowtail Shawl (finally!)

I finally finished the Swallowtail Shawl!!! (I'm sure you are in total shock I finished anything!) It's a tad small, but I saw someone in Ravelry using it as sort of a scarf like thing, and it looked pretty good that way.

I love the pattern, and I may make another one but with bigger yarn and possibly adding a few repeats.

Things I learned with this shawl: lifelines are good, never set your lace down for long periods of time or else you'll forget where you left off, and I need to buy some blocking wires.

I went to the Indiana Fiber Festival last weekend, and had a great time. Bought lots of goodies. Hopefully, I'll have some spinning to show you in the near future!!

I need better pictures.

One of the reason I get tired of blogging is my picture quality. I am only home it seems when it's starting to get dark, and I have no natural light... plus, my skills just aren't that great. Then I see blogs with pictures that look so professional and perfect!!

I need better pictures. Maybe I should make a light box for yarn pictures?

I got my first Sundara Yarn from the Seasons Collection! I picked the "spring" season, and I received such a beautiful skein of sock yarn called "Beach Glass". It's perfect.




I also bought 2 skeins of laceweight Malabrigo on my way home from seeing my mom after her surgery.

I also picked my Swallowtail back up, after encouragement from the Stash and Burn group on Ravelry. Luckily, there was a lifeline in it so I could rip back to the beginning of a chart. My swallowtail isn't hard, I just got distracted and forgot where I was..... Though, I'm already thinking about another swallowtail. I won't put the next one down mid-way.

I love lace, but lately I haven't had the mind for it. I feel like I'm getting ready to implode. I'm being pulled in so many different directions, and when I get home at night I just feel ready for bed and nothing else. I have two weddings coming up - I'm in one and my husband's in the other. With those comes showers, one of which I'm throwing. My husband quit his job, and we are in the midst of setting up his office so he can go into private business. And our house - our house... always something going on here.