fo : manta

This has been finished for quite some time, but I hadn’t photographed it until very recently–after some attempts to make it a part of my wardrobe this year I decided this belonged to one of my more fashionable friends for Christmas this year.

pattern : Stingray by Evan Plevinski

yarn : Lion Brand Heartland in Great Smoky Mountains

needle : US 8 [5mm]

size : a little too large

I don’t really remember what my experience was like knitting it. I didn’t encounter any glaring difficulties in the pattern itself, but I did get a little careless at one point and worked to many repeats of a few of the sections. It gave me a larger, prettier fabric but wasn’t faithful to the intent of the original design.

While it’s not lacework, I’m happy to say that I’ve made something that I didn’t think I would–a shawl. Thankfully this doesn’t need the intense sort of blocking a super lacy, feminine shawl would have needed, I probably wouldn’t have made it in the first place if that were the case.

I hope the recipient likes this gift! She and I agree on wardrobe color palettes for the most part, and I look forward to how she makes this a part of her already nice wardrobe.