Electric Echo Flowers shawl

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Pattern: "Echo Flowers Shawl" by Jenny Johnson Johnen [Ravel it!]
Yarn: Knit Picks Alpaca Cloud in "Bermuda Heather"
Needles: 3.5mm Knit Picks Options circular needles
Size: 27" x54"

Start date: January 6, 2011
Finish date: February 5, 2011.

Despite my overwhelming dislike of nupps, I decided to knit a shawl that had oodles of them. Thanks to my awesome Knit Picks needles, purling seven stitches together wasn't actually that hard. It was rather repetitive, but hey, so are miles and miles of stockinette, and I've done that before.

I knitted this during the latter part of my first semester at university, including the exams, so I'm actually kind of amazed that there aren't any mistakes (that I can see) in it.

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It's still one of my favorite parts of knitting—seeing something go from a wadded up pile of yarn that looks like something a dog chewed up and spit out to something that's so airy and delicate. I don't think I'll ever get tired of seeing that, and it's the main reason lace knitting will always be my favorite.

I haven't decided what to do with the shawl—there are certainly plenty of people I could give it to as a present (more so than in Canada), so I'm sure it won't be lying around for long. And with the weather being more normal here (in comparison to Canada, again), I'm looking forward to knitting more lacey stuff to wear in the spring and summer.