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3:33am March 23, 2014
Yesterday I pretty much finished this shawl.  Pretty much, because I don’t yet know if I’m going to add fringe or not, it depends on how much yarn I have after making other things.  And because I’m going to add a large oblong wooden button on one of the ends, so I can fasten it together. It is a really simple design, you just repeat the same pattern over and over getting bigger and bigger until you have eighty holes going side to side on the longest part.  It’s perfect.  Normally the holes would be more visible, but the yarn is so fluffy that they’re smaller than they would be even though the yarn itself is not very big. One nice thing about crochet is that when you don’t have something you want, you can just make it.  And you can make it completely to your own specifications, as long as you can either find a pattern or design something you like.  So far I’ve done it pretty much exactly according to a pattern, but I’ll be able to use the size and shape to design things that aren’t patterns later on.  And the button and possible fringe would be my additions.   It’s been ages since I’ve had a good shawl, so I just built one.  It took about two days, less than the shipping time if I’d ordered one onlie.  And they don’t sell ones exactly like this online anyway.  Any yarn you can find, you can make a shawl like this.  That’s the great thing.  And now I’m making some stuff that will match it exactly, which is the other great thing. Now Fey is in my lap wanting her face nuzzled, though, so that’s other crochet projects on hold until she leaves.  She gets really irritable if I try to crochet over her. Also I consider this one of my more Hufflepuff-type clothes, because of the colors.  It’s not just a shade of yellow, it’s a number of shades of yellow that all resemble wheat, which is what the Hufflepuff color yellow symbolizes.  And it really shines in the sun, because it’s partly lurex.  So it’s got this subtle shiny quality, even though it’s not so shiny as to become really metallic or anything.

Yesterday I pretty much finished this shawl.  Pretty much, because I don’t yet know if I’m going to add fringe or not, it depends on how much yarn I have after making other things.  And because I’m going to add a large oblong wooden button on one of the ends, so I can fasten it together.

It is a really simple design, you just repeat the same pattern over and over getting bigger and bigger until you have eighty holes going side to side on the longest part.  It’s perfect.  Normally the holes would be more visible, but the yarn is so fluffy that they’re smaller than they would be even though the yarn itself is not very big.

One nice thing about crochet is that when you don’t have something you want, you can just make it.  And you can make it completely to your own specifications, as long as you can either find a pattern or design something you like.  So far I’ve done it pretty much exactly according to a pattern, but I’ll be able to use the size and shape to design things that aren’t patterns later on.  And the button and possible fringe would be my additions.  

It’s been ages since I’ve had a good shawl, so I just built one.  It took about two days, less than the shipping time if I’d ordered one onlie.  And they don’t sell ones exactly like this online anyway.  Any yarn you can find, you can make a shawl like this.  That’s the great thing.  And now I’m making some stuff that will match it exactly, which is the other great thing.

Now Fey is in my lap wanting her face nuzzled, though, so that’s other crochet projects on hold until she leaves.  She gets really irritable if I try to crochet over her.

Also I consider this one of my more Hufflepuff-type clothes, because of the colors.  It’s not just a shade of yellow, it’s a number of shades of yellow that all resemble wheat, which is what the Hufflepuff color yellow symbolizes.  And it really shines in the sun, because it’s partly lurex.  So it’s got this subtle shiny quality, even though it’s not so shiny as to become really metallic or anything.