Shawl-mania

Here is a list of knitting projects, both in progress and to be completed by the end of the summer:

Sweater for David: have the body done, and one sleeve. Need to make another sleeve, then join them all together, do the yoke, cut the steek (eek), trim the edges, make buttonholes, add buttons and done. May need to spin up another ball of triple ply chocolate perendale.

Socks for John: One sock is made up to the heel. All the yarn in made. Everything I need is efficiently located in one bag.

Shawl for Shari: simple summer shawl made on size 10 mm needles with lovely varigated silk and wool yarn. Yarn already to go, wound up into nice balls. Pattern in my head. Cast on 4, knit one, yarn over, knit to the end. Do this until you either run outta yarn or it is the width you want. Block it. Add artsy fringe on three points with beads to give weight to it.

Green shawl using Liz's yarn: Lovely yarn, amazing colour of green with ply of delicately varigated silk. Again a simple summer shawl using size 10mm needles. The increases happen down the middle of the shawl allowing it to drape elegantly over the shoulders.
Here's the pattern:
Cast on three stitches.
Row one: Knit one, put stitch marker in, yarn over, knit one, yarn over, knit one.
Row two: Knit to the end.
In all the following odd rows, increase by two stitches each time by doing a yarn over on either side of the central knit. So row three will be, knit 2, yarn over, knit one, yarn over, knit 2.
Knit all even rows.
Unlike the pattern above, this one is knit from the top edge (the part that hand around your shoulders) down. The other one you knit from the bottom point up to the top part that hangs around your shoulders.

Varigated blues silk/mohair/wool shawl: I am halfway through this shawl using the pattern I listed in Down to Earth Elegance. The yarn is a double ply I made from a blend of mohair, silk and wool. One single was the warm blues, and the other is purples with hits of bright pink from the silk that really caught the dye.

Last one is a shawl for my friend Dawna. I grew up with Dawna and want to make her a handspun, hand dyed, hand knit shawl. I am combing some Ramboullet X Romney lambs wool and spinning a lace weight single. I have one bobbin made and have started bobbin #2. I hope to have the yarn made by tomorrow so I can dye it and have this to knit on the plane. I don't know which shawl pattern I will use, it will depend on what the yarn looks like in the end.