So…for Christmas I asked my husband for yarn and a pattern. I had found this awesome book called Greetings from Knit Cafe.
I loved all the patterns in here as soon as I looked through it, but I really wanted someone to just buy me the yarn for it, so I wouldn’t have to go through the normal wishy washy problems I have when picking yarn. What color to pick, what material, how heavy a yarn, what will drape well? All that stuff.
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<—This is the dress and also the problem…I have never done lace before. SO this presents an interesting challenge.
I have been trying to start this dress for a good 6 months now. The color that he picked out…jet black. He wanted me to have a little black dress to wear anytime I wanted that I had made myself. How sweet right? Little did he know that I would take one look at the pattern and get shell shocked.
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I think I have finally come up with a solution. I didn’t want to start the dress, become discouraged with the yarn and finally end up frogging it and warping the yarn he so lovingly picked out for me. So I figured the next best thing is to start something similar that would give me the confidence to finally tackle this project.
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This is where the fantastic rainbow shawl comes in. I have this lovely rainbow yarn, soft as anything and lace weight. I have this vision of a rainbow shawl that would drape across my shoulders and be beautiful yet functional. I finally found a pattern on Friday while searching through Ravelry.com’s free patterns that would be the perfect thing. I even surveyed some of the hundreds of people’s projects that were made with the pattern and found that for many of them, this was their first lace shawl.
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So my plan is to attempt this shawl and once finishing this, I can move onto the beautiful dress my hubby wants me to make. So wish me luck everyone…this be quite an undertaking…
creative yogi 