The start of a shawl...

Happy Friday everyone! Not a lot has happened in the terms of craft this week. I went back to work this week - which surprisingly (ok, totally not surprisingly) is taking time away from knitting and sewing. It is amazing though how quickly I went back into it, and came up with some very good BS in meetings. 

Also I have been really distracted by tidying. I tackled my jewellery collection - so satisfying - and today was notebooks (I tried to gather all of them, but I am not sure I actually managed it).   

On my list for today was to knit - it has not happened - but I was set. I have never knitted with Fyberspates - I was looking for a fingering yarn for a shawl - the yarn had to be ethical of course. I did not want a block colour, but not a crazy variegated either (if that makes sense). And I came across these skeins at Knit with Attitude - and I just knew it was what I was looking for. I just cannot wait to start knitting properly and show you.. soon.

A question of Quantities {knitting}

Last week I did not get a chance to show you the middle twist of Nord, but here it is:twists and the start of the v-neck shaping. Isn't it amazing?

I have never knitted v-neck shaping before so that's interesting and fun - and hopefully will make me knit this up a bit faster. 

My real problem now is that I may be running out of yarn. I have found my spare skein BUT that skein was awful and split in zillions of places (I complained to the Knitting shop - no response and now they don't sell it!), and I had left out that skein on purpose... But it will be handy (and very annoying) in the end. 

This is the actual colour - the previous picture was edited on IG

Running out of yarn is not something that usually happens - because I am usually generous with the number of skein I buy - usually one more than I think I will need, in case all the UK (and French) retailers run out of the specific yarn (yes this is happening right now with Cascade eco Alpaca!). How much yarn do you buy for a project? The exact amount or more? 

Linking up to Ginny's today and interested in your thoughts.