Okay, here's the enablement story:

My secret pal gave me the Lotus Blossom shawl pattern.  I swatched for it using the Alpaca in Mist that she gave me:

But I'm not crazy about it.  I guess I should block it first, but I just don't quite see this shawl in that alpaca.  That alpaca is screaming to become one of the Gathering of Lace shawls, I have a feeling.  I actually think I might swatch for one of those, and take it on an upcoming road trip ... but that's another story for another entry.

So, instead ...

Remember that Michelle and Kristen both gifted me some yummy yummy alpaca recently?  Made in Colorado at Larkspur Funny Farm? 

I decided that I must have more Larkspur Funny Farm, and that it must all become a yummy shawl à la Charlotte's Web variety of colors.  Luckily, I brought my kids down to my mom's to spend the night Saturday while the Big Sweetie and I actually had a date to go see this play that night. (The play itself was so great -- I just loved it.)   Luckily, I was able to swing by a fabulous new yarn store in Denver called Colorful Yarns.  (The store itself?  Good thing it's far, far away from me, or I'd be buying the Textiles A Mano, Cherry Tree Hill, or other various yummy yarns there in an out-of-control way. It was a lovely store.)  Joanne left some great directions  (see April 24) on how to get there if you want to go yourself.

So here's the colorway of my Lotus Blossom Shawl:

I haven't decided yet if it is going to be from left to right, or right to left.  I'm leaning right to left.

Thanks, my yarn-enabling-friends!  I mean, isn't it great that three other people have collaborated with me in some form so that I could make this?  I just can't get over how great that is.  It's destined to be called the "Friendship Shawl."

But that's not what's making me laugh hysterically.  Check out the dialectilizer if you want ... this is how it's translated my blog into "redneck":

In which Daisyifer gives a quick alert...

ah have a mo' trimenjus blog intry a-comin' later, but ah jest wanted t'give a quick alert t'yo' all out thar in bloglan' thet ah's listin' some yummah Kocho'an listin's on eBay this hyar week. Shet mah mouth!.. check them out har.

Posted at 7/13/2005 10:34:23 is by Daisy
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Monday

In which Daisyifer finally decides upon a noo blog name, feels inabled by her inablers, an' laughs hysterically

Okay, I've decided on a noo blog name.

ah apologize t'ennyone who reads this hyar blog somewhut regularly t'have subjecked yo' t'mah absolute an' extreme indecishun.  Really. 

On account o' ah decided t'go fo' a mighty noo, diffrunt name than enny thet had been discussed, cuss it all t' tarnation.

Ready?

But let me also say fust thet ah had a lot of speckashuns thet went into this hyar blog name ... it had t'be sumpin thet ah w'dn't be embarrassed t'say out loud (as in "J is fo' junkie", "Th' F.O. ho," an' even "knittin' at 5337" which was jest awkward).  It had t'be sumpin thet was a sho't title, so ah c'd put it on a button, as enny fool kin plainly see.  Sumpin thet'dn't necessarily turn into an ill-fated nickname.  Sumpin thet'd lend itse'f t'a hansum an' fun banner thet ah c'd does mahse'f.  Sumpin thet'd leave open th' opshun of bein' sumpin of a "designer" some day, an' thet'dn't embarrass me "professhunally."

(Etc.)

It just cracks me up!  I mean, how is that for a nickname -- Daisyfer??!  In Texan parlance, the name Jenifer is actually pronounced JEAN - ah - fehr.  Still.   (My mom is from Texas after all, so it's more like I'm laughing with it rather than at it.)

Moving on, I've been a bad blogger.  Lesley had a little gathering at her house, which was a lot of fun.  Wanda, Michaele, Shirley, and Natalya all came; and I also had a chance to meet Tami (sp?!), and Anne, which was really great.  I also have a new FO to announce (it was a quickie!), and I'm working on starting the new blog ... Cast on, cast off ... So that means that any day now I'm going to go live.  Keep an eye open for it!