prayer shawl, crochet

Thought as i have so much yarn left over i can make a prayer shawl using the cirochet irish lace pattern. figure about 4 across the top then taper it down. so i gotta figure out how to make 1/.2 of a square. wasn't as difficult as i thought. folded a full one in half and used that as a template and only made 4 popcorns to start with. should have pictures tomorrow.

went for a ride around ocean drive and took my black paryer shawl with me, its k every row so not much thought goes into it.

Thread shawl

Thread on a cone we got at local senior center. Think I'll attempt a shawl. I've done one for plymouth yarn or knitpicks co. last year using their design.

progress on irish lace squares, prayer shawls, old magazines

Irish lace crochet squares, got enough, i think to make an afghan now, 24 of them. think a quick slip st with a crochet hook to join them will do it.

Old mccalls needwork magazines to go through to get ideas, patterns etc before i pass them along to others. there are over 75 magazines in total.

3 more brown colored prayer shawls done

more prayer shawls

have 2 more shawls done, in browns this time for the men who need some comfort after a loss. have at least 25 irish lace squares done now.

Merry Christmas all

went to moms last night and noticed my neices' afghan so i picked that up and knitted a whole skein of the homespun while there for the night. it was a green/white tweed but the dye lots ARE different and you could knida notice the difference. got about 25 squares of my irish lace done so far. will work more on those today and rest of the week. Greg has to return to work tomorrow and 2 more days for work this week.

Prayer Shawl update, new books to read

got 15th prayer shawl done today, took it to the dentist, my mom and i both had our teeth cleaned. left there and went to senior center where we got mostly brown yarns, and a few grays. wanted to make some shawls for men they need to be given to. The church is St. Michaels in Bristol.

Also I had order a quilt magazine for my mom along with the perpetual caalendars, one for crochet, one for knit. For every day of the year there is a different project. I went through each of them and found at least 15 items i was going to make. a lot of them were just pattern themselves which i can incorporate into baby blankets, etc. I also have now submitted my own designs to them, one for knit and one fro crochet and hope to find out soon that they want to include my designs in their calendars for the year 2009.

Working on more of the irish lace crochet squares for this weekend, might sneak in some work on the red wrap around sweater.

prayer shawls, other projects

This shawl was difficult to make, mostly due to the yarn. Was Lion Boucle but only 3 oz skeins so took 4 of them to make this. Yarn didn't slide as it normally does but grabbed onto other threads in the yarn.

Now working on another using Lion Colorwaves, these skeins are also 3 oz but the yarn glides along the needle. No particular pattern, just k every row.

I wasn't able to find the center easily thus the big jumble of yarn on the floor as i hurriedly knit it up before it gets tangled. pattern color is nice, carribean. pretty dark turquoise, blue and greens all mixed up, but at times forming a pattern.