Another day, another shawl.

Last night, during "Doctor Who," I realized I had made a third mistake on my Invisibility Shawl. It was only four inches long, for crying out loud, and it had three mistakes in it - that I knew of. I'm willing to bet there were more.

Yes, were. I frogged the poor thing. Why? Why can't I knit a laceweight shawl?! People do it all the time. I can knit a laceweight scarf, but something about widening it out into a shawl turns me into a dork with ten thumbs. This makes three laceweight shawls that I've started and then frogged because they were loaded with mistakes.

Okay...okay. Clearly I need more practice with the laceweight. I'll make a couple more scarves first; Town and Country has two very pretty cousins called Dainty Bess and Gloriana, and I even have appropriate laceweight in my stash for them. In the meantime, a lace shawl is not completely out of the question...


Naturally, I consoled myself on the loss of Invisibility Shawl by casting on Domovoi Shawl. It's lace, but not laceweight. This is the linen-cotton blend I bought at last year's Wool Gathering, finally becoming the aforementioned wonderful rustic shawl. It's kind of rough, it's unevenly spun, there's veg matter flying all over the place...I think I'm in love.

Domovoi Shawl is a pattern from Cheryl Oberle's Folk Shawls; the domovoi are Russian household elves. They are helpful to good housekeepers, quietly helping with chores and spinning and things, but cause chaos for the bad housekeeper who slacks off or swears a lot. Um...I might possibly need to pacify them by knitting their shawl, or maybe by not swearing so damn much.

I hope they'll settle for the shawl.