AND SO LIFE CARRIES ON... 1st December 2021
An audio clip will appear HERE in due course... I am always amazed at just how much crochet I churn out. I suppose it IS my main occupation now, but there are quite long stretches where things just 'progress' towards completion: Work In Progress, or WIPs as they seem to be known. Well, of late, several projects seem to have come together in quite quick succession:- In the wake of my Ocean Waves wrap came a scarf using the same pattern and yarn, but in a slightly different way: On the tail of that was probably my favourite so far - a pineapple shawl worked in hand-dyed alpaca-and-silk yarn, to a pattern by my guru Fiber Spider on YouTube. It's 6 ft by 3 ft 6" and thus this photo really only shows half... The upper photo shows the blocking process, where one dampens the shawl and stretches it out to open up the lace-work. As you can see, an awful lot of pins are involved, but the end product IS worth it. It's one of those patterns that seems initially compli