Thursday, 28 August 2014

Speedy Ta Dah!: Wedding Shawl



I did it! Quite literally in the nick of time (we're leaving tomorrow morning already and I still need to tidy house/pack/all the usual things) but I have finished. I present to you, my lovely readers, my first shawl.




The light is terrible at this time of night, so I promise I will try and get a picture of it in action over the weekend so I can show you the lovely purple colour. It's a simple V-Stitch pattern, I chained 7 and then in the 4th chain from the hook I did (treble, chain one, treble) then skipped two chains and did the same in the last chain. Then I continued the pattern on the next row, working (treble, chain one, treble) into each of the chain one stitches from the previous round. It worked up really quickly!  I used 3 balls of  'Omega' by Lang yarns and a 5.5mm hook, to get a slightly lacy look. I like the yarn a lot, it's an acrylic/nylon mix and really soft. My only slight complaint was that the yarn got knotted on 2 of the balls halfway through, think it wasn't wound properly. A wee bit of time wastage but hey ho here it is :)

Have a lovely weekend whereever you are! Here's fingers crossed for some nice summery weather :)