If I had the capability to do so, I'd show a picture of the latest shawl. It is Elizabeth Zimmerman's Pi pattern (Vernal Equinox) in half ( a half circle shawl). By the last row, there were more than 600 stitches on the needle! Took a really long time to get those stitches worked off in crochet.
Since the yarn was mostly acrylc with some mohair, I decided to block it with the steam iron and it worked beautifully. No way could I do it with my lace wires. There are only two flexible wires in the kit and this shawl was way longer than what those two wires could span (it is a half circle, which means it needs to be blocked in a half circle). Besides, even my double bed wasn't big enough to spread it out and the weather was too bad to try it on the lawn. Besides, again, the edge was ruffly, so I'm not sure the wires would have even worked.
I was surprised at how quickly the shawl worked up (relatively speaking, of course) but I was using quite large needles - 10.5 - and the yarn was about sock weight. I had doubts about the yarn; normally I prefer not to use something with that high an acrylic content (okay, call me a yarn snob, I just like natural fibers more) but it handled quite nicely, definitely easy to rip out when mistakes were made, fortunately few. The yarn came into my place of work as a donation and I claimed it for a future give-away project, which this will be as soon as I find someone needy, but I wasn't sure I wanted to use it for a shawl. I did need to do something with it and I needed to start another shawl (I try to keep one going all the time)so this yarn was it. My efforts weren't wasted.
The wedding shawl and mitts were delivered and worn at grandsons/new granddaughters wedding in New Zealand. They were much appreciated and looked lovely on the bride.
I finally got a copy of Nancy Bush's Estonian Lace book. The shawls are so beautiful and I plan to start one as a next project, but first I am doing another wedding shawl in the Valentine pattern, this time with a lace border. The yarn is the same one I knit the mitts out of, an 80% goat hair/mohair, 15% mohair, 5% lurex mix (it sparkles). I bought this yarn for $1.98 on clearance and thought at that price it wouldn't be much, but it is great! Over 400 yards per ball and knits up very nicely. Can't wait to see how the shawl turns out.

Wedding mitts

I finished the wedding mitts which is a good thing because their method of travel to New Zealand leaves on Monday next week and they have to be on board along with the shawl pictured.
The knitting of the gloves went well with no more than the usual tinks when a pattern didn't turn out right, usually from a lack of a yo in the previous row. This pattern was so much better than the mess I originally started with, I will undoubtedly use it again when anothr g-daughter gets married.
And speaking of patterns: the shawl in the picture is knitted with a pattern called "Valentine" and is one I've had for years. I managed to lose the pattern somewhere but fortunately, I had knitted a sampler with the pattern in it and I was able to recreate the pattern, and have since knitted several shawls with that pattern. And wouldn't you know, after the first or second shawl using that pattern, I lost the instructions again! (It is somewhere around the house somewhere, in my knitting stuff. It will turn up someday) but in the meantime, I had to re-recreate the pattern again. You'd think I'd know it by heart by now!
Also progressing on the Vernal Equinox shawl, to the last set in the pattern series. It is a very large shawl! Making progress also on the scarf/small shawl knitted with Mary Paton's Sparkle Mohair--I love knitting with this yarn! So much so, that I ordered a skein of every color they make minus the brown...just can't get into brown, although I have brown mohair spiderweb yarn I plan to knit into a shawl/scarf one of these days. And one of these yarns is destined to be a Mobius scarf. I knitted one far enough to get the gist of how it's done and realized that one simply does not keep knitting around and around. Midway through a row, one has to change to purling or it comes out with half of it knit and half purl, from the middle outwards. Don't ask me where the change occurs--after all, this thing has only one side and one edge yet it has two sides of a pattern. Go figure.