Half a Field of Flowers

Here's what I have so far.

Fiber Trends' Field of Flowers pattern is a square; I'm knitting the triangular version (my own experimentation). It's quite simple, really, if you know how to knit a neck-down shawl. The pattern is knit first as a square of flowers, then knit all around with the classic feather-and-fan pattern, followed by a nice edging. It's easy to chart the flower pattern to fit a triangle, then you just follow the feather-and-fan and end with the edging. I've added a stable 2-stitch top edge and a middle rib, as befits most neck-down shawls.

The yarn? It's black and oh so difficult to photograph! Ergo, the crappy picture. I hope my pictures will come out as beautifully as Cara's in the end! I'm using Misti Alpaca Sport in #7000 Black, a nice flat black that will work with basically anything in a professional or personal wardrobe. (Like the other shawls I've knit, this isn't for me; it's a present. Ssh!)

Reading: It's been a while since I had one of these. I'm totally hooked on Donna Leon's Brunetti series, which is based in Venice, Italy (so many corrupt Italians!). BF's mom gifted us with 2 of Miss Leon's books while she was here. I'm on my 3rd in 3 days. I just finished reading Edward Dolnick's The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece, in which he writes about the theft and recovery of Edvard Munch's The Scream. It's a meandering sort of tale, going into side stories, always coming back to the subject at hand. Quite interesting.

Flash now: The 2006 edition of the May 1st Reboot is on. See what's being done with Flash now. Cool stuff.