This is my progress on the Pierre Shawl (ravelry link). I'm posting this to say goodbye to it and gain the strength to unravel the many many hours of work it took me to get here. I got all the way to section 8 of 10 on this, and it is by far the largest and most involved piece I've ever attempted to knit.
I started this knit around 3 or 4 years ago as a gift for my (now ex) mother-in-law. After a couple weeks' worth of hard work, I had to put it on hold and never really picked it back up, mainly due to my dissatisfaction with the colors I picked not making as smooth a gradient as I wanted. Now that I no longer have ties to the person I originally knit it for, and because I neither wear shawls nor things in these colors, it is a bit useless to keep the project indefinitely on hold.
The yarn is some of the nicest in my collection (Berocco DK vintage) and these are also the only pair of circulars I own at the moment. I know it makes more sense to bite the bullet and unravel it all so I can make use of the materials elsewhere, but I'm struggling to do so because I'm so proud of what I created and know I'll never see it finished. So I figured I'd share it here! I'm particularly proud of how even my stitches are, especially at the end of the project!
This project taught me a lot about what I'm able to learn and do as a knitter and I'm looking forward to taking the skills I learned from this project to make new things now that I've picked up knitting again (I tend to go on long hiatuses from my fiber arts hobbies and I'm back on a crocheting and knitting kick).
I frogged the majority of a piece recently, and I felt better when I reminded myself that I like knitting. I don’t care a ton about knitted things. So I got to have all of that fun and learning, and now I get to do it again without even buying more yarn. (Mine was also on my only long circular, so now I can magic loop again. Double win.)
Also, it’s a beautiful piece, so go you. I actually dig the colors.
Haha thanks for the kind words! My friend's mom actually likes it so I guess I'll pick it back up and finish it. This post just pushed me to double check if anyone I knew would appreciate it.