Wedding Shawl, Complete

PATTERN: Tru Wuv, designed by my friend Jane. 

© Kat Canfield

YARN: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Marine Silk Lace (51/29/20 silk/merino/tencel, 868 yds/100g skein), color "Branwen."  I used an entire skein with a comfortable several-gram margin.

© Kat Canfield

NEEDLES: US 4/3.5mm

It was absolutely perfect.  Thanks, Jane!  Thanks, Kat!  Thanks, everybody!  (More pictures here . . .)

© Kat Canfield

I'm Back!

I have returned.  We got married.  It was great.  I will post pictures when I have them, including pictures of my fabbo wedding shawl.

On an administrative note, I still haven't heard from Karen B., winner of the blog contest.  Karen, please get in touch!

Update: Karen has been located, and the yarn will soon be making its way to her by postal shark.  Woot!

And We're Off

Tomorrow, we're heading up to north Idaho to prepare for our wedding on Saturday.

So I won't be posting for a week or so, probably.  I'm sure you'll be bereft.

Gozer sez, don't cry.  I'll be back soon.

This, That, and the Other Thing

So you may or may not have been aware of this, but I'm getting married.  In, like, three weeks.  (WHY YES I AM PANICKING THANK YOU FOR ASKING)

My friend Wendy made me a dress, but of course I needed a shawl to go with it.  And Jane designed one for me!  Yay!

She kept coming up with designs and I was all "ooh I like that one," and then she sent me this one, saying "I think this could be THE ONE" and damned if she wasn't right.

This is a terrible photo taken at 2 AM because that's when I finished binding off.  Finished pictures later.  (I blocked it this afternoon, so I am actually ahead of the wedding-apparel game.  For now.)

In other news, I entered a few pieces in the county fair:

Why yes, that is my Maplewing that won Reserve Grand Champion.  (A friend of mine won Grand Champion, too.)  Go me.

And here are a few choice photos from our walk tonight--

The sunset reflecting off clouds to the south

For some reason this streetlight was on before all the others.  Neat effect.

Trumpet vine volunteer!