Can you knit too much?

Okay - so the kid and the husband are no longer around the house and Ivy and I are done with the cleaning (family + holidays = mess) and after paying the bills and a couple of loads (read as mountains) of laundry, I thought I'd catch you up on my Lerwick...

So you can knit the shawl in one of two ways - from the center panel out or from the borders in. After disecting the pattern it cautioned about using the borders in method for anything other than shetland cobweb - and I used the 2/28 cashmere. I'm guessing it's because the cashmere will loose a little of the shaping while being worn - causing the corners to kindda ruffle...so center panel for me!

I only swatched the edging - silly me! So I cast on the center and got thru the wave and the tree and was feeling pretty pleased with myself and then...well I knit the next set of waves and although I didn't like the extra "leg" at the beginning I did it anyways - it's right - it's in the photo and I was going to follow the pattern. Then I knit the reverse tree motif and looked at it and realized there's no way I could continue like this. Frogged back and flipped the rh and lh borders so they flow smoothly and then dropped the reverse tree and added the rosebud pattern from Heirloom Knitting. Now the shawl and I are both happy again.

And in between all the holiday insanity someone reminded me that I had guild on Saturday and I had promised to teach thrums....but why in Missouri are you ever going to need thrummed mittens I can only wonder. So I figured I'd have the beastchild make the thrums - of course being a teen now (barely) he said it was boring and left to play hockey. I must remember this when I start the borders of the Lerwick....