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I'm working on a wedding shawl for my best friend's wedding, and designed a spiffy number out of Mecha in a triangle (pics of both to come) and have been playing with Shawl Shaping, as I am designing a "Summer of Weddings" shawl! I have at least 4 weddings to attend this summer, and I am actually in 2 of them!

I also had a bunch of my stuff photographed, (without props, so they look kind of odd) so I'll make a post with those pictures too!

Right now, I'm thinking about making a recent shaped shawl shaped by making 4 yarn overs at the end of the right side row x times, followed by x number of 4 yarn overs at the beginning of the right side row. I hope to make a kind of series of recents within the crescent this way. I'm having trouble picking the yarn I want to use (in case it's a disaster) and the stitch patterns (in case it's a success and I finish it). Plus, I need to work on a paper about international ethics problems, guess which task I'm looking forward to the most?

I have another shawl in mind that will combine Mermaid Mesh in one color yarn, with possibly Net Patent in the other.

Links to the stitch patterns I mean:

Mermaid Mesh:

http://www.knittingfool.com/StitchIndex/StitchDetail.aspx?StitchID=2333

Patent Net:

http://www.knittingfool.com/StitchIndex/StitchDetail.aspx?StitchID=2027

That's all for now, I'll post pics of my in progress shawls once my phone is charged!

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