An Old Friend

Last year I made a shawl/shrug for my  mom.  I swiped it back from her to a) get some good photos of it and b) check on how the yarn is wearing and 3) wear it myself for a day.

I carried this puppy around with me for 3 months while knitting it. It became my friend, my blankey, and in the end my albatross. But it turned out so lovely, it was worth every stitch.

I called it the Treasury Shawl, as I was using Barbara Walker’s stitch dictionaries as inspiration.  I just knitted along, trying different stitches as I went.

This is my favorite part:

Here’s me doing some Tai Chi:

My mom may not get this thing back. It’s cozy.

Anyhow, Mom wears this all the time. The yarn, Berroco Love It, (colorway called “Salad Days”) is holding up mighty fine. Very little fuzz, no pilling at all, and the stitches are still nice and defined. I so so so adore this yarn so much.

Six months of wear:

This little worm was the only thing I could find that needed attention:

Wax on. Wax off.

I just can’t way enough about this yarn. I lurve it. (Love It!)