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    Hi! I'm Traci. I'm a Registered Nurse who loves quilting, knitting, cross stitch, and the great outdoors. In my pre-scrubs life, I owned Real Photography, and you can still see my old wedding and portrait photography site here .

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ashburn shawl

I started this last September intending to have it done for the rest of fall…but predictably finished it now, at the tail end of winter.  Oh well, it’s all ready for next fall now!

Details: Ashburn pattern, The Plucky Knitter primo fingering yarn in Rachel, Ross, and Aperitif (which is how it earned its nickname “Date night for Rachel and Ross”)  The pattern was a little unclear on the contrasting color sections, but I was able to get an answer from the pattern author that you were indeed slipping the same stitch on the wrong side that you did on the right side, and that cleared things up beautifully.  The picot cast off was also a pill–normally I would have cast this off in one quick burst, but it was annoying enough for me to break it into three separate days of knitting.  Worth the effort, but not necessarily fun to do!

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And a couple of in progress peeks at it:

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Louisa - I absolutely love the colors that you chose! What a fabulous scarf!