Last week Mr. SpiderKate and I went on vacation to the Bahamas to celebrate our 4 year anniversary! I wanted to post from the Bahamas, but I refrained as we were on vacation aka no technology allowed. Okay, maybe I used a little technology for the purposes of email, but that was the extent of it. This was special trip for us because not only was it our 4 year anniversary but we had also gotten married in the Bahamas. Oh and did I mention that we got married on leap day? How neat is that! I can't take any credit for it because it was all Mr. SpiderKate's idea to get married on leap day, but once he planted the idea in my head, I was hooked. So it as special to be back in the Bahamas to celebrate all of that. We had a lot of fun while we were there just walking around, reading, eating (A LOT of eating) and just relaxing.
Just before leaving I was in a rush to try to finish up not one but two shawls. I only got to finish one of the shawls, which I posted about, the En Fuego shawl for my sister's friend. I was also working on a sample of my Wild Ivy shawl for Knit Picks. I really wanted to have the Knit Picks one done before I left as well, however I realized that I couldn't finish it AND block it AND photograph it AND mail it before leaving. Once I (painfully) accepted these realizations, I shifted my focus to getting done the En Fuego shawl so that I could check at least something off as done before going on vacation.
Well tonight I finished knitting the Wild Ivy shawl. All that I have left to do is weave in the ends (which I will do as soon as I finish here) and block it. The good news is that it will be blocked and ready to photograph this weekend. The bad news is that it is going to be raining all weekend. I seem to have the worst luck with weather + knitting photos. As Mr. SpiderKate often says to me "well it is going to be (insert extreme weather condition not ideal for photographs here) so I know that you must want to take photographs of a finished shawl". Yup, just check the forecast. If it calls for high wind + little sun, then you can bet I'm going to have a finished shawl that I want to photograph outside. Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket! Okay, well here is an unblocked (and might I add hastily taken) photograph of the Wild Ivy shawl. I can only hope to get out between the rain drops this weekend and get some blocked & better photographs.
P.S. This photo does not do the color justice. The green is deeper and more like hunter green as the colorway name suggest (yarn is KP Capretta in colorway Hunter).
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