shetland in pink

I'm knitting up the Henslowe in some very intense color.  This pink reminds me of a dress my mom had in the 1960's.  It was the only pink she owned, but boy was it pink.  And she looked so striking in it with her platinum blonde hair and matching shoes and purse.  Matchy-matchy was quite popular back then.

I didn't inherit her glamour gene.  So my "pink shetland" is something of an oxymoron.  But pink makes me happy, and knitting rows and rows of garter stitch makes me happy, and a lace shawl makes me happy.  So there ya go.

The first section is knit exactly like the Aestlight shetland shawl.  But instead of placing the stitches on some scrap yarn until the end, they are bound off using the suspended bind-off.

I had a lot of difficulty following the written directions for this bind off on Knitty.  So I went to YouTube and found a great tutorial.  The demo shows knitting through the back loops, but on mine I knit through the front loops.  The extra step in this technique forces you to use a bit more yarn thereby creating a perfect traditional yet very stretchy bind-off.  Love it.