Every once in awhile I actually do start knitting something that’s supposed to be a gift – and it actually remains a gift. I don’t end up keeping it, I actually give it. I usually have to knit this item up extremely quickly, and it has to be something I’m not paying that much attention to, so I don’t get too attached and want to keep it.

As was the case with this Wisp. My boyfriend’s mom had her birthday back in November, and I was supposed to weave her a shawl. I successfully wove her that shawl, however, my cats stepped on it so many times that the tension was utterly destroyed and it ended up looking rather pathetic. So I was going to weave her another shawl, but the yarn I purchased was a bit too itchy, and I didn’t have enough left to make one in the appropriate size.

I started browsing Ravelry in search of something simple that I could knit up quickly and wouldn’t become attached to. I already had a yarn set aside that I was fairly certain she would enjoy, but I needed a pattern.

And then I found it: Wisp.

I finished knitting this in just under two days, and blocked it over night. I stupidly bound off too loosely, and it is rather frilly on one edge, but I’ll just chalk that up to design and claim it was supposed to be that way.

I ordered a shawl pin for her Wisp, but it hasn’t arrived yet, so I’m waiting patiently for the mailman to get here with it, so I can finally give her her birthday gift – almost two months late.

Pattern: Wisp, Knitty Summer 2007
Yarn: dkknits technicolor dream toes, Cricket Love Song
Needles: US #6/4.0mm Addi Turbo