On a Lark (for Juneteenth)
I am still knitting, but I spent a big chunk of my knitting time at the beginning of this year working on my Alabama Chanin dress - which I'll share eventually. In the meantime, I worked on a few other things and finished this shawl a couple of weeks ago. It's On a Lark , by Anne Lindquist. It was one of the "free" patterns from this year's Rose City Yarn Crawl. It was my first time to do the whole yarn crawl (back in March) with my cousin Jen , who is also a knitter, and someone I don't get to see often enough. Chuck did the driving, we took two days for 8 shops, and had a fine time. I bought yarn for three (yes, THREE) projects. I hope we do the yarn crawl again; it was really wonderful. The shops were great, even though there were ALMOST too many people in some of them. There was even a map that shared spots for meals, coffee, and stores and other diversions for the non-knitter who was along for the ride. So it turned out not only to be a great tour o
