Thursday, September 28, 2017

Virus shawl - nope

I'm not going to do a virus shawl. It's a beauty, but looks like too much work. How can I say that when I make more or less solid rectangular prayer shawls for church? All those arches of double crochet. Just too much. Here's a pic: https://www.instagram.com/p/BNUd8arhzC-/

For the shawls I make, I have used Lion Brand's "Delicate Web" pattern several times, James G. Davis's "Mile a Minute" in strips sewed together (this goes very fast), and the binary patterns such as 10101 and 01010 from http://engineeredcrochet.blogspot.com/. I also made a nice one with the very old public domain, very oldiamond pattern, likewise a fast pattern.

If I want a lacy shawl, I want it to be LACY, very open, and with many different types of stitches in the different rows. For instance, this and this, which I found on Pinterest and consider the images to be "fair use." They are different patterns.



00100 prayer shawl finished.

Colors in fluorescent light.
Starting a new one in 00100 stitch, which I haven't tried before. It's very open. Makes triangles. Colors: "sage" green, which is a medium light green, yellow, rose, country blue, more yellow and green.

Closeup of 00100 stitch
Colors in sunlight.