Love the execution.
Hate the style.
FUG-et-about-it
In a nutshell, that’s how I feel about this tunisian shawl. I just spent a half hour the other day going through all my crochet stuff trying to organize the items into three piles: sell, donate, and needs pictures for pattern updates (that’s what I’ve been doing ad naseum for over a week now). This one didn’t exactly fall into any of those categories.
I don’t think I could sell it. It’s made with yarn that I ashamedly purchased at the beginning of my crochet career when frizzy, fuzzy, play yarns were all the rage. Don’t get me wrong, I’m also grateful for them. That’s right: GRATEFUL. Whether we like them or not, novelty yarns brought more people to the crochet and knit community. They got people to demand more yarns in big box craft stores like ACMoore and Michaels. They got people talking – not always in a good way either! Don’t be hatin’ on the fun fur (too much).
So a few years down the road from having made the Miami Scallop Shawl – and having fed into the novelty yarn rage by actually designing with it – I’m sitting here looking at this design pondering it’s revival. I believe in the design. I really do. When looked at on it’s own, it’s really nice. And the garment does have great drape. But the yarn. Ohhhhh, that yarnnnnn! It’s hard to get past. Whatever yarn I replace it with has to have the same great drape as this does.
Anyone have an great yarn recommendations for a very drapey yarn, most likely with some silk or other organic content to help this design along? I might be pondering a variegated yarn. Thoughts?
I feel better now having aired that dirty laundry!
