10-11-2020

10/11/2020 - I LOVE the results of the first clue! These colors (kit from Plucky Knitter) are amazing and I’m so excited to see where this goes. I’m an experienced knitter, but I still found Stephen’s video incredibly helpful (and fun to watch!)

12-09-2021

I’m so happy with the way this turned out. It’s one of my favorite pieces! That said, it’s had a bit of a journey.

It spent the winter in the freezer (with only nine rows left!) after a single random larvae thingy fell out of my folded up pattern. After months in the freezer, this shawl summered in the hot car in my driveway, finally it spent an hour in the oven (just to be safe). Somehow it survived all the terrible abuse I put it through and I finished the last nine rows almost a year later.

This was not stash yarn, it came straight from the store and was on my needles within weeks. Then it was worked on near daily. I found the larvae after it had been idle for only a week and it was no fresh hatched larvae. I was not able to find any larvae damage (thankfully). I still question if it was even a moth larvae or something that fell out of a tree into my project (I like to knit under the trees in my backyard when it’s nice out). To be on the safe side I cleaned out my entire craft room and moth proofed any stash that wasn’t already moth proofed. It was quite the saga!