Pleasance Shawl

I've been in a lot of yarn clubs over the past few years.  I don't always do the projects in a timely manner.  In earlier years some of the skills required were more advanced than mine.  Sometimes I am in the middle of other knitting and the club project gets put off.  Sometimes I just don't like the project and repurpose the yarn.  (That's a chance you take when you join a yarn club.)

Here is a project that is only one year behind schedule.  This is a Woolgirl kit from her Victorian Writers Club of last year.   Even though I tried to keep up with that club, I failed.  I really liked this project though.  The shawl is called Pleasance and it's by Susanna IC.   Back in January and February I participated in a Susanna IC mystery KAL.   Once that was over, there was a choose-your-own Susanna IC crescent shawl KAL.  I decided to knit this, therefore KALing and catching up on my kits.

I cast on February 29.  So far, so good.  I did 26 l-o-n-g rows of lace, including countless nupps.  Then, early in the short rows,  I messed up somehow.  I could not recover.  So I ripped this out.  All of it!  Including 26 l-o-n-g rows of lace with countless nupps.  It's painful to think about!  So I started over.  And now, late July, five months after I started, it's done.

I think it was worth the wait.