Our lovely Office Manager, Melissa is often chilled in winter because there is a window by her desk. In summer, the A/C vent is a source of more chilling - so I knit her a little shawl in a varegaited sock yarn on 4 mm needles in the Rainbow Shawl pattern.
The problem is - I don't have the ball band to tell you what wool it was. If I encounter an errant ball band at the bottom of a knitting bag, I will certainly update this space.
The colors were cheery but not garish, purples, pinks, blues, oranges, greens - sort of muted faded circus colours, and knitted in this pattern were so well blended together as to look somewhat like a Matisse Painting of a flower garden on a hillside. The colors will match most of her wardrobe preferences.
If I can figure out how to make my cell phone camera work, I'll post a picture when she wears it at work. Today was not that day - it is the "weather gap" week between when the heater/boiler is shut down and the "cool air exchanger" will kick in - so it was a bit warm and stuffy in the office today as the temp. climbed to a whopping PLUS SEVEN CELCIUS.
please do cheer. We want to encourage Spring to stick around and I live in the hopes of green grass and shady branches.
Susan
