It's Time for a Tea (shawl) Party!

Yipee! Woo Hoo! 115 10 row repeats are done! Not a moment too soon either, the last 50 or so repeats were bad, but the last 4 or 5 repeats were absolutely deadly. The Shetland Tea Shawl is finished, done, complete!

This is it before blocking. Unfortunately, blocking is not done, I didn't have enough straight pins to block it all, so I have a little over half of it blocked now and will be blocking the rest as soon as I get more straight pins. Therefore, I don't yet have any shots of me dancing and prancing around with my shawl. :( Here are some blocking shots:

And finally, here are shots of the 4 individual motifs. Unfortunately, this first picture shows an area that I must have screwed up on, I don't know why there is a random hole in the lace. If I had seen that before I left home, I would have shot a different section so that you couldn't see one of my many imperfections.

Vital Stats for the Shawl:

Pattern--Shetland Tea Shawl from Meg Swansen's A Gathering of Lace

Yarn--Skackel Lace Weight Merino

Needles--Size 3, dpns, 16" Inox circs; & 24" Addi Turbos

Started 11/6/05, finished 12/7/05

Approximate number of stitches 67,435

Finally, to the North End Ladies, sorry I didn't make it last night, I got home from work early and fell asleep, next thing I knew it was 7:00 and I didn't feel like going out into the cold again. Mara, I will bring your books back next week, unless you want them earlier, in which case, you name the time and place and I will get them to you. Christine, I will have some stuff for you next week to, unless you want it sooner, then just let me know.