sewloud

I finished my shawl!!! I did a real write up on my blog but here's a picture as proof. I'm no longer completely naked for Gettysburg now I have a corset, hoop AND shawl...

I've been working on the shawl pretty consistently and I'm nearing the end of my second skein. I have a question for those of you who said you've made it before.

Could you possibly measure your Center Back from the top edge till the first stripe beings? I don't have a good idea on how big it should be before I start the stripes, the pattern just says to make it as big as you want..but I have no idea how big that is!

I thank you in advance. 

I picked up some natural and brown marled worsted weight wool yarn on clearance at work today for $1.97 a skein and I've been pondering what I could make with it. I'm on a historic knitting kick at the moment and I was thinking of making this shawl it looks pretty simple, all garter stitch and basic increases which I can do. So I'm poking around ravelry trying to figure out just exactly how it gets the chevron shape (I think it comes from increasing in the CB and the edges) originally I thought it was two pieces sewn together, but I don't think so now. A lo- and behold koshka_the_cat has already made it of course!
I swear she's done everything! LOL. Guess I know who to direct questions to when she gets back from costume college.