About time that I shared some crochet with you!  This is the Korallion scarf/shawlette, by Addydae Designs.  I have crocheted a number of Deanne Ramsay’s patterns over the years and always find them delightful to work on with really effective results.

In this pattern the yarn does a lot of the work! It’s a sock yarn from Bendigo Woollen Mills. I possibly bought it from the back room on my last visit, but if you keep an eye on their website yarns like this come in and out of stock. I don’t even remember the name of the colourway – but I do remember that I used just under two full balls.

The curly edges are worked at the same time as the rows – they’re not added in afterwards. This means that you start crocheting at one corner, increase along one edge until one ball is pretty much used up, then start decreasing with the second ball. Well, that’s what I did! I managed to frustrate myself trying to decide if I could somehow find the same colour changing spot in the long repeat of the second ball so that the colour changes would mirror on both halves of the scarf, then I gave up and just changed balls at the end of one row. It’s a good thing that I did, as the long colour changes in each ball weren’t the same lengths or intensity anyway!

This is actually pretty simple to crochet, essentially being only chain stitch and double crochet (that’s US terms). This will be a really useful winter accessory for me.