22.5 degrees

I decided on Saturday evening that I also needed to knit for my Dad´s twin sister a birthday present, she apparently has also 60th birthday tomorrow (She doesn´t read the blog so I think I´m safe to post this)
After looking through ravelry for some quick shawl that had garter stitch and some border I ended up with this shawl, not so much of a lace border as I intended but I like the knitted edging. The yarn (Sandnes Alpakka) is very soft and nice to knit with, I hope it will hold up well.

Pattern: 22.5 degrees

Yarn: Sandnes Alpakka

Needles: 3.5mm

I´m going this afternoon to pick up the cardigan I made for my dad, a zipper has been installed. I will be giving the shawl and the cardigan to  my dad and his twin sister tomorrow, so on Saturday I should have a picture of my dad in the cardigan and maybe his sister as well :)

Jumpsuit turned shawl...

The jumpsuit I had planned, was just horrible.. it was so wide and uneven the knitting...  so i stopped and started on a baby-vest instead with the yarn...  was not fully happy with the project and my 2 year old made sure that I would not finish it by frogging it for me. 

I was very unhappy with the yarn (dropsbabyalpacasilk)... me and this yarn are not a match made in heaven, I like my knitting to be very even :)      I almost frogged the shawl ... and one skein was even more uneven than the secend (the first) so my thought was that this shawl would never be worn. At this point I was ready to throw in the towel.

But decided to stick with it and see what happened after was,  and it got much better and the yarn is so soft and lovely. But I will never ever attempt to make any item of baby related thing with this yarn.

But me some lovely merino wool (Debbie bliss rialto) and I have started on a butterfly cardigan in newborn size.   And I´m planning on pants as well.

The pattern for the  shawl is just the traditional Icelandic Hyrna.