Why the Yarn Chicken Crossed the Street

Remember a couple of posts ago I wrote about a shawl I’d played yarn chicken with and lost? It always irked me, that black cotton edge. I know it was very dramatic looking, but I didn’t like the way it hung, how the cotton didn’t have the same drape as the bamboo. So when I was at the Knitters Frolic in Toronto last April, I went in search of the Dye-Versions booth and sought out another skein of 100% bamboo fingering in Vampire’s Kiss. I found one, among other lovely things.

Then I unravelled the seven or eight rows from my shawl, got all those stitches put back on a circular needle, and proceeded to reknit (and rebead) the edging. I think it was worth it.