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Detail of pattern...cat hair optional. |
With the weather still being gloomy and very wet,we are forecast today in some areas to have one entire months rain in just 24 hours ( and I think we had our full quota earlier before breakfast this morning) I have done very little else but crochet.Consequently I have managed to churn out yet another mini shawl from the patterns on offer by
Annette Petavy.
This one is called
Toscane,another Helene Marcy design, and I used up most of the 4-ply (Patons Diploma) that was left over from my red jumper with the heart shaped buttons.I still have about two balls leftover which is annoying.I could have made the shawl bigger ....but then I might have just run out entirely at some crucial point on the border design.
I thought first of all that the wool was going to be a bit on the stiff side for this particular pattern but soaking the finished shawl in some cool water for a little while prior to blocking it out seems to have softened the fibres up quite nicely.
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The border has raised trebles and little picots which look nice and the whole thing was incredibly easy to make....yet again this pattern looks much harder than it actually is.
The shawl is started at the centre of the top and then worked top down so you could adapt it to suit your own requirements or how much yarn you have available.This particular one has more of a rugged wintry/autumnal feel to it rather than being a floaty little number for summer evenings but I like it none the less for that.
And finally....back to floods.Yesterday we all had a brief interlude of nice weather.We actually managed to sit out in the garden and admire the sunshine.We even managed to have a swarm of bees fly over which caused a flurry of excitement and much rushing indoors and shutting of all the windows again.Today however it is back to the rain and earlier this morning it was torrential.
These pictures show part of my sisters garden this morning...their office was flooded too with about 6 inches of water.They don't even live where this is a risk of flooding.I hope their tame hedgehog has his own wellies or knows how to construct a rudimentary raft.
I love the shawl - such a pretty colour. You seriously make me think about crocheting again but I know my wool and corchet hooks are buried under so much tat in the understairs cupboard and I just don't feel brave enough to tackle that yet! That flooding looks worrying. Such a wet summer, sat here watching the rain while I type. Hope you have a good weekend. x
ReplyDeleteThank you Debbie and I hope you do have a go sometime.The nice thing about it is that it is transportable...just the thing when waiting for children to emerge from whatever fun activity they've been up to.
DeleteBeautiful shawl, yet again. You've inspired me. I got a book on learning to crochet from the library. I'm so sorry about the floods. Send some of that water my way. We are having horrible fires. Luckily my house is not in danger, but the air quality is horrible and we can smell the smoke. Hope this strange weather is over soon for both of us!
ReplyDeleteI am impressed on two counts.Firstly that I have inspired you,and I am so pleased about that,and secondly that your local library has a book on crochet.I don't think my library has ever had a crochet book on offer.Let me know how you get on and if you want help I will try to do so.
DeleteHaving fires around is awful too.Hoping for better weather for everyone too.
Oh no, sorry to hear about the floods! It's been raining here too. Here's hoping for a little dry spell soon.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteAnother lovely shawl! I've used Patons Diploma before and it was great - nice for crochet with the crisp stitch clarity it has.
ReplyDeleteLots of rain here too but thankfully no risk of flooding for us either. Poor year for the gardeners.
Thank you!
DeleteMy garden is just a big mush with soggy birds hopping around in it.
Lovely shawl! Your crochet pieces are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!
DeleteLovely crochet as always. Hope you & your sister are OK, what a strange summer!
ReplyDeleteThank you Karen and I hope your Swinderby fair jaunt went ok !!
DeleteRain in that quantity just boggles the mind. I hope you and the little hedgy can dry out soon. We had all of 0.09 of an inch of rain last week, bringing us up to 1/2 inch for the entire year. Gasp.
ReplyDeleteI just love reading of your creative exploits and seeing your incredible photos, and I've nominated your blog for an award:
http://olderthanvintage.blogspot.com/2012/07/one-lovely-award.html
Thank you so much Katrina!Thank you too for reading my paltry ramblings.I can't quite believe just how little rain you have had compared to how much we have had.
DeleteBeautiful shawls, both this and the Guirlande in the previous post.
ReplyDeleteCan you feel the double whammy warmth of a Lovely Blog award?
ReplyDeleteSuch gorgeous shawls, I love the colour. The floods are awful, for all my complaining about rain at least we have avoided that. I hope you are having some respite from it now.
ReplyDeleteOh no! Your weather looks even worse than what we have over here. At least there seem to be enough pauses between the torrential rain not to cause flooding. I'm thinking I should have stayed in Italy...
ReplyDeleteThe shawl is very lovely. Maybe I should indeed take up crocheting for my early morning bus rides through the rain...