WIP Wednessday

I don't usually do WIP Wednesday posts because I do alot of projects that get finished within a week or two and it seems like overkill to do a post on Wednesday and then show the FO on Friday. This time though, I have a project that will take me awhile, three months to be more precise. So I figure I'll give come progress reports along the way.



This is the swatch for my Nerd Wars dissertation. Here is a link to the pattern on Rav.

A dissertation is supposed to be a challenging project that will take the entire tournament (3 months) to complete. I submitted mine for the technical category since I have never made something out of laceweight and the only shawl I've made with a lace pattern was this little shawlette using fingering. Any other lace pattern I've used was on a small object.

It's pretty slow going, and it's taken me a little while to get used to the tiny yarn.

Here is a picture of the actual shawl in progress.



That was before I picked it up last night and I completed about 15 rows. I was working on it for at least 3 hours. Overall I expect that it will take about 60-70 hours to complete however I could be completely off base and may regret saying that once I start getting towards the end when each row takes over an hour. In fact as I type this I'm feeling like I stupidly underestimated the time.

I've tried to set a schedule of how much I need to get done each month in order to finish. I have about 35 rows left this month. So, go team!