It's another Finish Along quarter 1 finish! And it's a knitted thing that has been on my list to finish for fucking ever!
It's a Hitchhiker :D Despite what some people I know might think, this is only the second one of these I've made. But it's a good pattern, and as someone addicted to pretty sock yarn but who hates wearing socks, pretty shawls like this are the way forwards!
It's been back and forth to work with me (in fact it was started in the car on the way to a work meeting in Derby), it's been to many gaming nights, and it's been to a plot meeting in the gorgeous Peak District where we almost got snowed in!
It's got a couple of mistakes; there's a weird loop where it looks like I managed to loop the yarn round some live stitches at some point, there are a couple of teeth that I think are 2 rows too big, and there's one tooth that is twice the size it should be, which means that this is technically a 43 tooth Hitchhiker, and also that it's got a really cool bit of colour pooling about two thirds up.
I did play some serious yarn chicken with this. I'd bought a full skein and 2 mini skeins, because I'm bad at working out how much I'd need, and when I knitted my first one, I used what I think is actually sport weight, or very light DK, so I used more than the pattern called for.
As it was, you can see the progression from just starting the final tooth, to how much I had left for the cast off, to what I was left with in the end. I was pretty impressed!
This was finished on a much needed "fuck this, my mental health trumps turning up to work and wanting to bash my head against my desk" call in sick day, which I can now pretty much never get away with again because the understanding manager has now left.
I didn't block it, because I'm lazy and like instant gratification once something is off the needles. Plus with this pattern, I don't think it really does much. If and when I do another, I'll probably do one of the eyelet modifications, so I will block that. But that won't be for a while.
Hanging on the hanger that lives on my living room door solely for the purpose of draping finished shawls!
And delightfully modelled by yours truly, at her desk, looking like she'd rather be anywhere else in the world.
And that's it for now. I'm valiantly trying to get a couple more projects done for the end of March. I know it's March 31st now, but I still have 7.5 hours left!
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