It's finished!

I love knitting. It's a wonderful pastime, it makes beautiful things, and since most of my knitting is modern and just for my own pleasure, it is a nice way for me to play around with yarns without feeling it to be work-related in some way.

I am not a very fast knitter, though - in the sense that it often takes me a long while to finish a project. Not because my actual needling action is so slow, but mostly because things tend to lie around for a while between stints of knitting frenzy. So I'm always quite happy to have a project finished, and it feels like a Big Thing. The latest one was finally bound off on Saturday morning, and it has now been blocked, and I am utterly delighted to have this done just in time for the cold season:



My Arabian Nights shawl is finished. I didn't knit it all to the end, as I want to have it more like a scarf than as a shawl, and since I used lace yarns, not sock yarns, it is a good bit smaller than the pattern states for the original - but I'm happy with the current size, and it definitely is very fluffy and very nice and warm.



Yarns were a two-ply fine wool yarn, dyed by Micky in a wonderful shade of grey, and a silk yarn, dyed with indigo by Margit.



It was my first venture into brioche knitting, and I did like it. The knitting itself was rather mindless, apart from doing decreases, which were a bit tedious, just the thing that I was looking for, though now I'm happy to have this finished and do something a little more exciting next. (Stranded knitting, just in case you are wondering. Time for some colour shenanigans.)