Thursday - August 07, 2008

 Icarus back up from the sea

 Well, after bellyaching about it for quite some time, I pulled both Icari out of the stash drawer and looked at them.  The one in the multicolored Graceful Place was about five rows along, while the gray one that I'd worked on on the honeymoon and had rejected was 26 rows along.  

I used the Ravelry search feature to look at the various kinds of yarn people used for their shawls.  I decided that I liked the solid or mottled ones best; the structure of the feathers only at the bottom didn't look like what I wanted if the lace pattern had to work against the different stripes.  

The gray Icarus I'd started on the honeymoon was still in the bag with the extra yarn.  I was able to put it back on the needles; the yarn had clung together well enough that some of the markers were even still caught in it.  

And so, fished out of the sea and ready to have its wings repaired, is:

By my calculations, there are about 141 rows on Icarus.  According to the shawl calculator (using the math for the tip, since it starts with few stitches and works its way up), I'm about three percent of the way along.  

It's going back in hibernation, on the needles this time, until the Summer Shawl is finished, though.  

(Also, I have a new picture of the secret project up on Ravelry.)