Orenburg Style Shawl

Recipient: Unknown
Designer: Wendy Engstrom
Pattern: Orenburg Style Shawl
Source: Fiberholics Central
Due: No due date
Colours: Steel blue, maybe soft grey for the border
Yarn: 100% alpaca, fingering weight
WIP status: Started

2006-Jul-18

This is the result of my frantic hunt for a crazy, new, inspiration-laden project. Originally I cast on according to the instructions (bottom border first), and then decided I wasn't up to figuring out how to turn the corners - I think I just wanted something mindless yet insanely gorgeous and stunning. Besides, when I am already stumbling over endless lace border repeats in another project, why heap on more of the same? Dammit, I just wanted to dive right in to the insanely involved lace part. So instead I'm just going to knit the centre first. I'll figure out the border later. Given that I have no idea if I have enough blue alpaca to finish the whole thing, this is probably a good idea. Hopefully I'll have enough to do the centre, and if it looks then like I'm running out of blue, I'll do the border with the grey alpaca - I've got tons of that. (The blue and grey alpaca, BTW, are leftover from this project.)



(It'll get bigger, I promise. Especially once I stop leaving the damn pattern at work every night.)