Galaxy Shawl

This is the project that has taken longest out of all my projects thus far.  The reason is not that it was incredibly difficult (although it was a completely different challenge than any other shawl I've done).

The reason is that back in October, when my puppy was young and I was naive, I visited Grand Junction.  While there, I went to the yarn store "Tangled" and bought this yarn.  I brought it back to the hotel room, set the bag on the coffee, and left for dinner with my family.  The puppy remained behind after a potty break.  It is important to note that he had several toys with him.

When we returned from dinner, we found (much to my horror and my husband poorly concealed amusement) all 908 yards of both balls of yarn tangled together.  I just now realized that the name of the yarn store has been prophetic.

I spent about 8 hours untangling the first ball and even started the project ("In the Pink" by IzzyKnits).  However, whenever I looked at that second ball of yarn I grew so depressed that I eventually through the whole project in my knitting basket to tackled another day.

About 8 days ago, another day finally came.  I am so glad it did because this is my favorite shawl ever!  I know I say that about all of them but I mean it this time!

I'm sorry about all the pictures, I was just too excited!


The magic of blocking!



Before Blocking