They are two very sweet kitties that love yarn! I had to do most of my knitting either as passenger in the car on day trips or when the kittens were asleep. For kittens, they sleep amazing little! Bundles of total energy. I wish I had some of that energy! I could have knit 50 shawls!
I thoroughly enjoyed knitting this shawl. The pattern is Wingspan, and I used Green Dragon Sock Yarn in the colorway Squires. It had 490 yards in one skein. One was not enough. I was running low when I got to the 8th and final "wing" but luckily I had another skein that I had bought to make matching fingerless mitts. I estimate that it took about 600 yards altogether. I used a US 4 knitting needle. I have seen really cute shawl pins in both orange and maroon in various shapes at Backstitches, one of our LYS. I am going to take the shawl by there and get one to match later this week.
Now that Hokie Bird Wings is complete, I will go back to finishing Flamingo Wings Shawl. It is my other Wingspan I had already been working on but stopped to do Megan's shawl. I wanted her to have it to take back to Tech in mid August. I can't believe that the summer is flying by so fast. Flamingo Wings is not far from being finished itself. I am on wing #6 of 8.
I finally decided I couldn't stand it anymore and purchased the first 3 Swing Knitting workshops from Ravelry. I am totally fascinated by Swing Knitting! I need to find some plain sock yarn to work with to do that. All of my stash sock yarn is variegated. I have really been inspired by some of the beautiful versions of Wingspan!
