{Okay Mum.... No Peeking!!}

Are you my Mother?  If in fact, you are the Mother to the writer of this blog, I insist you close this window now.  I will be showing off details of your Christmas gift, and I don't want you ruining the surprise!


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Okay. I think we're safe now. :D

I got yarn in the mail!! I've become fast friends with V, an independent dyer from the fabulous Vberry on Etsy. We email pretty much daily. hehe I hope one day I'll get to meet her in person!  Well, I was lamenting how I'd need to find some silvery-gray yarn for my mom's shawl for Christmas and she offered to dye some up! I was SUPER excited.

She ran the yarn through her cycle once and it came out a little too light for what I was going for, so she went to run it through again.  Weeeeeeeeeeeeell, there just *happened* to have been a skein of red yarn in the sink before my gray yarn and some imperceptible red dye still lurked.  It's given the yarn a little bit of a pinkish- hue in some odd spots around the yarn and I L.O.V.E it!!

Can you see the itsy bitsy pinks peeking through? IT's gorgeous!  AND , it's even prettier all caked up! (they always are, aren't they?)

I'm dying to get started on this project, but I can't pick the perfect shawl pattern.  I was thinking something triangle, that'll be complete in 450 yards or so of this fingering (or maybe add a cream border if necessary?).  I was looking for something interesting/fun lace to knit, but with the purl on the back row because I like the look of it better.  Maybe a corner to corner construction one? I don't mind if it's not free this time, since V sent me this yarn FREE of charge because of the pink mix up! She's the awesomest! :D

So what are your favorite lace shawl patterns?