I finished casting off my Annis Shawlette. I have quite a bit of yarn left, relatively speaking. A ball of yarn about the size of my fist. On a not-completely-unrelated issue, the shawlette seems smaller than I was picturing. I am pretty sure it is the size that the pattern specified, so any inaccurate picturing on my part is entirely my fault.
I haven't blocked it yet, so it may grow a little yet. I am reserving judgment.
In the meantime, what does one do with a fist of lace weight alpaca? Too much to throw away; too little to make anything useful. Maybe a bookmark, but that sounds like a lot of work for something that will be mostly squished between pages, and probably lost in the bottom of my work bag. I will have to keep thinking.
I could always save it in a box, waiting ten years for someone on the other side of the globe begging for me to give it to them so they can finish the edge of a massive shawl. I don't know from where that idea came.
Today, it is all about the fistful of useless yarn.
You never want to get rid of it, I know. I finally let go of most of the partially used balls of yarn, and a ton of "new" old yarns. A fist size ball of lace weight...have you searched Ravelry?
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