I am doing a KAL(knit along). The Shawl Society provides knitting patterns for shawls, at a rate of one a month for 6 months.  I finished the first one of this season last night,  good timing as the second pattern was issued this morning- I have the yarn for that and will start it later today. The only problem is that the shawl I've just finished now needs to be blocked and I  really dislike blocking.