Yellow is probably my favorite color. If you asked my sister, then she'd say that my favorite color is orange. While I do love orange, I contest that my favorite color is in fact yellow. I love yellow for how happy the color seems, so bright and cheery. It's not my favorite color to wear - I don't own any yellow shirts or etc, but I think it's a good color for certain accessories. This brings me to the lace weight En Fuego Shawl I recently finished knitting. I can now officially say that I've knit this shawl A LOT. A quick look at my Ravelry notebook revels that I've now this shawl 4 times: 2 fingering weight versions and 2 lace weight versions. Craziness.
The reason I knit this one is to participate in the Knitters Unlimited Guild KAL. I was asked to talk about this shawl at our meeting as well as run a KAL for it. The KAL started in April and is ending in August. August 6th officially, since that is when the Guild next meets. We had about 14 people who wanted to participate, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how all the shawls turned out.
I let this shawl linger...and linger....and linger....until I finally had enough and made a real effort to work on it and finish it. I was also motivated by a recent lace class I taught as I could use the shawl to demonstrate different things: inserting a lifeline and the look of the shawl pre-blocking, & post-blocking. It didn't help that I was knitting another lace weight shawl at the same time, which got more of my attention. Anyhow, I put in a real push to finish this up and got it done and cast-off on July 2nd.
Needles: US 4 (3.5 mm) 40" circular needle. I actually used the Addi Natura's and loved it for this project. I'm thinking that wood needles might be my favorite type of needles for lace weight shawls.
Yarn: Classic Elite Yarns Silky Alpaca Lace, colorway 2460, dye lot 4443. The shawl used a total of 82 g of yarn which equals ~717 yards of yarn.
Finished dimensions: 61.5" wide and 29" long at spine
Time frame: Knit on and off from April to July. A bulk of the knitting happened in April & June with a little happening in May.
Notes: It is really hard to photograph this color. I took a lot of photos and while some show off the detail of the shawl well, they really make the color look duller than it is in real life. The first photo I have in this post probably shows off the color(s) the best.
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