My blog posts are actually a fair bit behind my crafty output at the moment – I think that Sewjourn tipped the balance, since I managed to get so much done there.  At least I’ll be able to blog something when I have a craft hiatus!  This week I finished an All Shawl (Ravelry link).

I reckon that this shawl has been crocheted almost three times to get one shawl. It starts off with a small number of stitches and increases with each row to get the shawl shape, which the designer Doris Chan describes as “like a pie with a wedge missing”.

The body of the shawl is in a mesh pattern, with a six row edging. Except mine has a four row edging. I ran out of yarn. The second time I made it I pulled out the edging because I had loads of yarn left over and decided to make it larger. But before I started the edging a second time I had to pull out more mesh rows and re-do them because I’d missed a stitch somewhere.

So when I ran out of yarn with two rows to go, I decided to cut my losses and just finish it off as it was. If I ever track down another ball or two (which is extremely doubtful, as the yarn was bought on clearance sale last year) I’ll add the final rows.

The yarn is Yarn Bee Down to Earth bamboo tape from Spotlight (colour Nomad). Although it’s all the same dye lot, some rows of the shawl look lighter than others – the balls weren’t really consistent. But I don’t care. I’ve worn this shawl for two days now and I love it.

I don’t wear it as in the above photo – I prefer it draped across me and pinned on one shoulder. This was today’s outfit:

The cap is the Swirls Cap I made early last year.

Have a great weekend everyone – I’m going out for dinner with my husband this evening to celebrate our upcoming birthdays (his is the day after mine).  The friend I babysat for last night is babysitting for us tonight!