Yule Shawl

I've come relatively late in my knitting life to the Joys of Proper Lace Knitting, i.e. shawls made with non-acrylic yarns and blocked with some measure of care. Lace might look pretty whilst it's being knitted, but the pattern and size of the thing you've been working on for ages don't really show until you've wet it and pinned it out...


...nor how airy and soft until it's dry and you've unpinned it.


I'd chosen the yarn and the pattern (Rav link) to evoke ice, snowflakes and frosty spiders' webs, in keeping with the midwinter theme. But stretched out, it looks like a pair of angel wings, and thus reminiscent of the Nativity and the Christian midwinter festival. It was snowy when I started it, and the snow returned just as I was finishing it.