On the Needles

I have started  knitting a shawl which I will donate as my contribution to the fund raising auction being held by the Mastocytosis Society; TMS , at their 16th Annual Conference in October this year.

 The yarn is Eki Riva Supreme 100% baby Alpaca 4 ply. The colour is a really soft mauve/lavender. It is beautiful to knit - very soft and buttery. Yummy! Residing in my 'take to India stash' is some navy blue in the same yarn ... twitch, twitch ...


... and ... the red shawl is growing. It has some 'creative' pattern variations in a section that I knitted last week when I was feeling pretty ill ... I don't know what my brain was thinking or what planet it was on 8-/
In the interests of sanity I am learning to let those imperfections just hang out where they fall, as long as I get the stitch count etc back to what it should be by the next row or so - in all honesty, who is going to notice except me unless I point the 'alternative' stitches out.