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That didn't work.  I had some bright red boucle yarn that I was planning to use for the last ring of big hearts.  I finished off the Noro shown in the last article, and started with the boucle.  Made it to two rows and gave up.  Forgot to take a picture; sorry. The yarn was too thick for the lace--couldn't see the stitches, couldn't see the pattern developing, and worst of all, I couldn't see what stitch I was on--whether I had already done the two K2T (effectively), or only one.  Unpleasant. So I unpicked, and that messed up the...

Moving into the final ring, this in orange blending to red.  Had a tiny bit of orange mohair that made a round or two, then moved into a long Nori leftover, blended with a bit of pink alpaca laceweight to shift the color toward red, and to add a bit of bulk.

I wasn't expecting the power to go out in my town; we expected a lot of rain, but not much wind.  We only received 7" of rain (yes, "only;"), and not much wind, and the power went out anyway, for 26 hours. Once it was clear we were in power-outage mode, I flipped into, "What are the things I need to do that don't require electricity?"  Swatching the lace hearts design for the final ring of #LIL came to mind right away. The pattern called for seven hearts in the outer ring, bringing the total of large hearts to 49,...

Two pictures, taken at exactly the same time of day, one in full sunlight and one in shadow. The first, in full sun. The one below, in shade. It looks like an entirely different project. Color matching is hard enough. Much easier if you can find a standard light and time of day. When I'm working on rugs, I select colors under natural daylight (I have a skylight, which helps) in the middle of the day.

I'm knitting ring 7, with 24 hearts.  Longmire's back on Netflix!  Made a lot of progress Sunday evening...  This gold mohair blends better than I thought it might and it's way easier to live with than sunny yellow.   When this ring is  done, the shawl will have 42 hearts, and it needs 49.  Donna Druchunas has written an intarsia ring for the final 7 hearts, spaced out with honeycomb in the dark yarn. I don't like intarsia.  53 people were injured, in addition to the 49 killed.  I have some room to do something different: 576 stitches in these...