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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nTechnically, this could be the last project of 2012, but I won’t be finished with it for at least another week. I took a break to work on a doily blanket order, because heeeeyyy– I still have a shop<\/a>! <\/p>\n Anyway, I cast on December 29. I was browsing Ravelry and remembered this yarn I won in a giveaway from the WEBS yarn store blog<\/a>…in 2011. Over a year ago! It’s pretty luxe for my taste, so it remained zipped away in a bag, only to be taken out and admired every once in a while. I don’t think I could ever knit cashmere socks, so when I decided I should knit a shawl, this yarn came to mind immediately. It’s Smooshy with Cashmere by Dream in Color (here<\/a>). It’s supremely soft and the colors are nothing short of perfect. <\/p>\n I’m using the tried and true Swallowtail Shawl pattern from Evelyn Clark (on Ravelry<\/a>), which is now available for free! I first knit this pattern<\/a> when it came out in Interweave Knits (Fall ’06). I started it in March of ’07, then it hibernated through the Spring, and I finished it at the end of summer. I am a crocheter first, so this is the most intricate knitting I’ve ever ventured. I hope to change that, this year! I want to write more crochet patterns, of course, but I also want to knit more complicated designs. I guess this could be considered a crafty resolution! Get intricate. Work my crafty brain out! And also blog more. I miss craft blogging.<\/p>\n Did you set any crafty resolutions?? I want to know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Technically, this could be the last project of 2012, but I won’t be finished with it for at least another week. I took a break to work on a doily blanket order, because heeeeyyy– I still have a shop! <\/p>\n Anyway, I cast on December 29. I was browsing Ravelry and remembered this yarn I won in a giveaway [Read More…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,42],"tags":[227,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"swallowtail-closeup1\"](\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8084\/8335317357_8a4fdc0662_z.jpg\")
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