summer is coming to an end

Summer isn't really coming to an end since there's a good month left on the calendar before fall arrives, but my seasonal calendar is affected by the school calendar. When my principal's annual 'welcome back' letter arrives in my mailbox, I really start to feel that vacation is coming to an end.

I spent all of July and the first part of August at home recovering from the foot surgery. I'm doing really well now and have no problems getting out and about as long as I don't try to walk too far in a single day. All the recovery time at home has meant that I have done a lot of knitting along with hours and hours of watching 'Midsomer Murders' episodes on Netflix.

With so much time at home I had been casting on for new projects with abandon, but this past week with the prospect of returning to my teaching job soon, I was rethinking some of the knitting commitments I'd made. A couple of so-so projects got ripped so I can use my time for knitting I'm loving.

Here's a soft and lightweight shawl that practically floats away on its own. The pattern is called Askew because the center line of increases veers off to the left and the two sides are completely asymmetrical.

It's a relaxing knit and doesn't require undivided attention - important when you're trying to catch all the tea-drinking and murder-solving in Midsomer. This project was made doubly wonderful by the yarn I chose for it. If you haven't knit with yarn from The Uncommon Thread, then you might want to treat yourself one day. I used her aptly named 'Heavenly Fingering' in a color she calls 'Nimbostratus'. The shawl takes only one skein, so while the yarn is a luxury yarn this doesn't make for an outrageously expensive knit.

I'm looking forward to wearing this shawl, but not so much that I am wishing for these last days of summer to pass by any more quickly than they're already doing.