This is my personal shawl project. While the first shawl was made before I came across these, the rest were inspired by The Crochet Project and The Shawl Project: Book 1. I’ve made four of the six patterns from Book 1, and have bought Book 2 as well. All of the shawls in Book 1 can be […]
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Transposition
This is the Transposition shawl from The Shawl Project: Book One. It was quite a pleasure to make, even if I did fail to read the pattern properly and had to go back about 10 rows… twice. I used Jawoll Magic dégradé yarn, which was also lovely. The shawl is very soft and comfortable to […]
The wide wild world of yarn weights
Worsted, Aran and 10ply… Oh my! As I have explored knitting and crochet online and with my local knitting group I have noticed that there is a vast array of terms used to describe the thickness of a yarn. This is super confusing for beginners and even confusing for experienced knitters & crocheters that are […]
Crochet wrist watch
I wasn’t going to post this, but last night one of the girls at youth group asked, “Is that a knitted watch?” and I replied that I’d crocheted it earlier that day, and several people said “Cool.” So I decided it was worth posting! I have really missed wearing a wrist watch since my current […]
Divine hat
This is a really quick and clever pattern! It’s called Divine Hat and it’s on rheatheylia.com and Ravelry.
Arm knitting
This was so much fun! We hand/arm knitted a scarf. You don’t use needles, you just loop the yarn around your hands. This video shows you how and has some very pleasant music to accompany you while you knit!