When finals roll along, I have an unrelenting "No knitting until you're done" policy, so this yarn and this project served as an incentive to get all my work done (it's a good incentive -- I stayed on Dean's List all year! Whoo!).
Eddie got me some beautiful yarn in Royalty from Sun Valley Fibers for my birthday. I normally buy fingering yarn in 440 yard skeins, but this skein fell short at just 400 yards. But alas, there are plenty of beautiful shawlette lacy patterns under 400. I decided to make Summer Flies by Donna Griffin.
The pattern calls for worsted weight yarn, so obviously my fingering weight finished product differs from the sample. Most notably, the gorgeous knotwork section doesn't show up as clearly as it would in worsted weight.
I had trouble with the first butterfly section, and I ended up having a few extra stitches at the end of the butterfly sections, but it wasn't really a big deal, I just made up for the stitch count (skipping the m1s, ssk when there were extra stitches, etc).
The bind off took super long, but I'm glad it's done. Blocking helped bring out the pattern. The color is most accurate in the first photo.
