Finishing up

Just as 2008 is finishing up, I'm finishing up some projects that have been left on their own for far too long. Number one is the Julia Shawl that I actually finished knitting several weeks ago, but couldn't seem to get around to weaving in the ends and blocking it. So, today is the day. It's knit with a yarn called Chispa, cotton with dashes of acrylic, so I'm not sure that it even needs to be blocked, but I felt like it needed some sort of something (how's that for a technical approach to finishing?). So, I washed it with Eucalan, figuring that after being hauled around on two trips and sat on by SarahCat many, many times, it probably could use a light wash. Then I laid it out on two cardboard cutting boards used for cutting out fabric, covered them with a waterproof tablecloth and put them on my outdoor worktables. I planned on pinning it out, but it didn't really seem to need it. Here's how it looks so far. I am so excited and so pleased with this.

Tomorrow, hopefully, I'll have pictures of me wearing it.