So I was bad today, I rode my horse around instead of working on the shawl or tutorials. I did get the pictures finished for the hand carding tutorial, and I did also get more rows done on the shawl. I also have some pictures of it.

Here is a detail of the short rows. The method makes a very nice effect that looks a bit like a dropped stitch garter pattern.

Here it is on the needles, at row 9

I took this one back lit to show the nice pattern, which is not so obvious in the first photos.

So I did manage since yesterday to knit up another 12 rows, but I was hoping to get more than that. I am planning on a horseback vacation with my husband, my horse, and his horse. NO KIDS, YAY! So I told myself I really needed to work with the horse, and get some exercise to prepare. Ain’t rationalization great?

So to make up for not getting so much done, I took it off the needles and sort of blocked it out a bit.

As you can see, the edges are scalloping nicely, and although it is not quite as I envisioned, I am pretty pleased with it. I am now up to row 21 in pattern. It is quite big already, big enough for a chapel veil, but I like mine a little larger. The blocking isn’t that great, and the pattern is consistent, but I couldn’t get it to mind me, so it still looks a little weird, but that will correct itself during the blocking.