It started off easily enough and progressed quickly:

Color Affection - all but the last few border rows are completed. But like any shawl project, it looks rather shapeless all bunched up.

 

I casted on at home, just before leaving for the airport.  I knitted for  two weeks while touring around Iceland. I almost finished on the plane on the way home.  (I did not knit in the car on the way home from the airport: it was dark. I had not seen “dark” for two weeks. Lack of sun seriously cuts into one’s knitting time.)

 

I had some doubts (Is “three stitches after the previous short row wrap, the wrap plus 3 stitches or the wrap plus 2 stitches?”   (And in either case, why on earth did I knit 3 stitches after the previous end of row?) Was I supposed to have enough short rows to use up all the stitches? What was the shape of this thing? How many stripes were there?) But I didn’t have a plan B, so I kept knitting.

 

I know I made some mistakes and I kept knitting.

I arrived home a week ago (and then there was a tornado.)  And today, I put it on a life line and spread it out to see what was happening:

 

And it is not going to block out well.

 

I know it doesn’t look tooo bad – but trust me, it was wonky shaped. And I would have been annoyed every time I saw it.

 

And I totally blame this view for my lapse in counting:

Myvatn

 

and this view for my failure to read directions

The little lambs totally wagged their tails when nursing.

 

 

and this view for ignoring the problem and continueing to knit

Can't you just see a lopapeysa in there?

 

and this view for squelching any doubts about shaping

I did not expect to see reindeer. I think they came down from the mountains because of the wind storm/dust.

 

Seriously – check out the larger view:

 

And now there is this view:

/sigh

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