Sunday, July 7, 2019

New pictures of 2008(?) "Delft" shawl and others using same pattern

This is the first shawl I made. I call it the "Delft" shawl.
  • I used James G. Davis's "Easy Breezy Filet Square" pattern (Ravelry link), then available free online. This is a quite open pattern. The shawl is nicely warm without being hot. This is one of the projects shown on Ravelry for the pattern.
  • It is in Red Heart Super Saver, which I do not use any more because it is rough.
  • It is 15 blocks in white and three shades of blue, every block different. I don't know why I tackled such a difficult project. 
  • I don't remember how I joined the yarn colors - didn't know the Russian join then. 
  • Or how I sewed the blocks together - probably just a whip stitch instead of the much more more satisfactory mattress stitch.
For comparison, see fourth picture below for a shawl I did in spring 2019 using the same filet block pattern in multicolor.
(Top) Hanging on the fence in the back yard, with the fence color showing through the open stitches at the joins, and (middle) the 2007 or 2008 large me holding it in the parents' living room. (Below) A truer color image of the squares laid out but not joined yet.

And then there's

The multicolored shawl from 2019. It does not have the wide joinings like the other but I think it looks good anyway.

Here is a shawl ("the stained glass shawl) in progress with the same pattern:
Closeup of squares: