Hi! Tracy's present was a prayer shawl I made from a Bernat pattern that I started working on last fall. I finally finished it last week. The yarn is called Dante and is made by Berroco. This yarn is thicker (nubby) and then gets thin in some places and I followed the pattern in which you work from the longest part to the end (bottom) of the triangle. When I got done with it, when it came to the end point, it was really too small. Changing the yarn is what did it, I'm sure. Me and my darn yarn changes. Since I have very little time to actually crochet and then along with the fact I had to come up with a plan to make it larger, is why it took me so long. I added 5 rows of dc down each side and some sc and pique stitch around the longest side and then added an edging on each side to match the bobbles/clusters and chains from the main pattern. I like how it turned out and so did Tracy! With each stitch I prayed she would remain cancer free!
These pictures are before I washed and blocked it. I liked how after it was washed, it had more drape, was softer and opened up the spaces and it actually became larger, yeah! I wished I'd have taken good "after" shots.
Can you tell I'm super happy I finished it?
THE BIRTHDAY GIRL!
I love you!
Taken just before we headed out to the Faire! More on that later.
I'll be back soon.
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