The yarn is silk and merino so its fabulously soft and lovely to wear. I must admit the shawl came out a bit bigger than I expected it to. I suppose its the silk in the yarn that allowed it to stretch but not spring back the way pure wool would. The pattern is Bernouille Shawl and it was easy to knit most of the way through but on the latter part of the pattern I seemed to make endless mistakes and had to do a fair bit of tinking back to fix things. I don't think it helped that I was also trying to get used to new varifocal spectacles whilst I was knitting this. The glasses are nice and smart, but uncomfortable and currently I can see better without them. I've been back to the opticians to get them sorted out and they re-shaped the frames to put the lenses at the right level, but within two hours they were back the way they had been and they give me a terrible headache if I wear them for more than an hour. I gather these kinds of lenses can be difficult to get used to though, so I'm just trying them for a while each day and hoping my eyes will adjust to them. The main practicing has happened whilst knitting this shawl as the charts were particularly small with two charts, one for each side of the shawl, to give a symmetrical pattern.
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Oh that is such a beautiful colour. It will be so lovely round your neck.
What a lovely shawl and it will be so beautiful to wear.
I wear vari level lens and love them. They have no lines either. It didn't take long to get use to them either. Something has to be wrong with how/where the transitions are in them.
Such a a gorgeous color! Its interesting that silk stretches more than wool, but I bet it feels like a hug wrapping around you!
I'm stalling on the bifocals as long as I can can. I don't think I will adjust well either. but, if they give you such headaches they are probably wrong and need to be changed.
Good luck.
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