New striped shawl, 00010 "Engineered Crochet"

This is done with the 00010 shell pattern from Engineered Crochet by Sarah (q.G.). It is not wide enough so it will require a border.  Here is the pattern close up. I will add pictures of further progress when I get them. The colors are semi-pastels, light country blue, bone, rose, light sage green.

Closeup of 00010. I think this pattern of Sarah's is beautiful

Here's most of it. I'm now working on a border.

Crochet techniques to learn

New techniques (or new to me)

Russian join -- Check! Called "long splice" by my Navy veteran father.
Magic ring -- have done one successful one from the video at Planet June. OK, now have done two.
Making a solid circle based on a magic ring --
Making a hemisphere --
Standing dc --
Chainless turning dc -- Hm. Not so successful.
No-chain starting row, sc and dc -- Check! with referring back every so often to instructions
Mattress join for square motifs -- Check!

In making lengths of the wide Irish edging, I have learned how to make neat picots, picot trefoils, and 3-tr clusters.

In making the bargello hanging, I learned to count, count, count every element, and to do long dc -- reach down to second row below. It is also used in the kitty-cat pattern.

Bargello

Kitty-cats

Meta bargello

Russian Join exactly where you want it

More on Russian join, or "long splice" as my former Navy dad calls it. You can change colors exactly on the edge or at the right place in a round. Basics of the Russian Join: Look it up on YouTube. This is not a how-to for the join, but how to place it.

Make the loop in the new yarn. (Make them in all the colors coming up to save time later.) Make it small but big enough to stick your hook through. Do NOT cut the tail off. You will use it to tighten the loop.

Pinch the place where the old color yarn is to change into the new color. Unravel about 10 inches of the work. On the other side of the pinch (toward the skein!) cut about 10 inches. Keep holding that pinch.

Stick the hook through the new color's loop. Take your pinched place in the old strand (don't let go, just loop it over the hook) and pull it through the new yarn's loop until the loose end has come all the way through.

Tighten the old color loop very tight on the pinched place; then make the new loop (new color) and tighten it.

Done carefully, this can give the impression that the yarn changed color at the exact spot it is supposed to. See the picture, where it is exactly at the end of the tan row and beginning of the green row.