It snowed and iced in NC this past weekend. I enjoy being outside but it was a bit too cold, even for me. This meant a lot of time stuck inside without much to do. We finished up our chores and then I was searching for something to do with my sweater completed. Finally I settled on doing something I’ve always wanted to do and redo the border of my Soft Full Moon Shawl.

I sent my knitting friends a “guess what I’m about to do” text and then promptly cut the border and started unravelling.

It took just over two hours to carefully unravel and pick up all the stitches from the border. I stayed up later than I normally do to finish in one session. But I did it!

I have a lot of soft ramen yarn (which I did save just in case) but I had an extra skein found in my stash for this project so I pulled it out and wound it up. It took me quite a while to settle on a new border pattern. I had followed the edging pattern from Full Moon by Andrea Jurgrau originally so I knew that was out. I went diving on Ravelry and did find some good options but nothing that really seemed to fit. In the end, I wrote my own.

It fits much better than what the original pattern calls for and honestly I’m so very proud of myself for even undertaking this work. It won best in show the year I entered it in the Carolina Fiber Festival so it felt like a huge risk to potentially ruin it. But I want to be fully satisfied with my work. It’s going to take me a LONG time to reknit the whole border but it’s going to be so very worth it. See below for my before picture when it was first completed. I first wrote about this shawl in the post Slump and recovery from 2015.