My August (sort of) Personal Challenge

Linette on August 12th, 2011

If you haven’t already read my and Lauren‘s little non-fiction piece in this month’s issue of TGS, go do that right now! And then come back and read the rest of this.

So, this month I’ve challenged myself to my first ever knit-along. This means that a whole bunch of knitters all sign up for a group knitting extravaganza on Ravelry – what Slate calls the social network for knitters. Right now there are 2294 people signed up for this adventure, all of us devoting the month of August to knitting the same pattern and each week we get a new clue.

Unfortunately, since Lauren isn’t obsessed with knitting like I am, I had to recruit my one and only knitting friend to do it with me, and we have officially embarked on Westknits Mystery Shawl KAL 2011: Earth & Sky. (Sounds cool, right?) I’m sure once it’s done it will be amazing, because Stephen West designs really cool things. But right now my shawl looks like this: