A colleague of mine recently celebrated her 30th birthday. Of course, what other better gifts than to give her a hand knitted shawl!! Although it’s going to be a belated birthday present, I’m sure she won’t mind that 
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Pattern: Springtime Bandit by Kate Gagnon Osborn
Yarn: 1 skein of Handmaiden Fine Yarn Casbah Sock in Ocean
Needles: 4.5 mm and 5.5 mm
I suddenly find it so funny that I knitted the “Springtime Bandit” during the spring season!! 
Ok, that’s not really that funny right? 
Finally I got to knit a shawl for myself!!! As you can see, I love wearing the shawl around my neck and this is the perfect pattern as it isn’t too big. The pattern and the yarn itself is like a perfect match made in heaven . I also added some beads towards the last chart just to sparkle it up a little 
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Pattern: Milkweed Shawl by Laura Chau
Yarn: 1 skein of Handmaiden Fine Yarn Casbah Sock in Moss
Needles: 4 mm and 5 mm
I really love knitting with this yarn. It was the first time that I’ve used this yarn and it is absolutely divine. It’s so soft to the touch and the colour is just so rich. Hmm, I just realised that the last two FOs are also shawls!! What’s happening??? 
I brought my Mum to Citi Nits when she was in Perth a few weeks back. She saw Ann’s Ishbel and wanted one too!! Of course, being the filial daughter, I told my Mum that I’d be more than delighted to knit one for her . Here’s the shawl in all its glory!! I actually finished knitting it last week but it has been pretty cloudy the past few days, making it hard to take any nice photos.
I used quite a lot of beads on this shawl. I was a little nervous halfway as I was afraid that too much beads might be just too much for the shawl? However, the end result was quite pretty. My colleague said that the beads look like raindrops on the shawl. Showed it to my Mum via webcam last night, and she asked, “Wow, did you put diamonds on the shawl?” My sister sniggered and said, “Ma, you think she can afford to buy so many diamonds?”
Pattern: Ishbel by Ysolda Teague
Yarn: 1 skein of Interlacements Tokyo in Submarine Pastel
Needles: 4 mm and 5 mm
Anyway, Mum will have to wait until end of the year before she gets this shawl.
