I ended up going to one yarn store while I was up there and got some beautiful hand painted baby alpaca lace yarn. It is so lovely. I am making a simple knit pi shawl with it:
As you can see, the yarn is so lovely that it doesn't need a pattern at all.
Speaking of shawls, I frogged my Mystery Shawl...I just picked the wrong charts from the clues from what kind of shawl I had in my mind. I looked at some of the other knitters' shawls and saw what I wanted my shawl to be and am going to change the charts around. I may actually wait to finish my Siren socks first before starting the shawl again. I have to check the measurements of my Siren socks today because though I cast on the correct number of stitches from my gauge, it seems the actual sock is much bigger with the scallop pattern. I'm going to have to confirm. Sherry from my knitting group suggested that I put a K3, P1 ribbing in the areas where it is just plain stockinette which I may end up doing after all.
I also have some really good news: I finished my Merletto Mitts!
They are full of mistakes and I absolutely love them! I used the wrong side leaning increases on the thumb of the second one - I got confused as to which increase leaned which way and then i just sorta continued with it. LOL. And the other fantastic thing about this project was it produced by my first ball of scrap sock yarn!
Look at the cute little ball of yarn! I have no idea why but I'm so proud of this ball of scrap yarn. I feel like I've accomplished something now that I have scrap yarn rather than just new, mostly unused balls of yarn.
I'm looking forward to having many, many more balls of scrap yarn to adorn my stash with.
