Details Project overview: The shawlette is worked from the top down starting with a pattern of open fan and v-stitches that decrease nearly to a point. Silver-gray stems and leaves jut outwards from the shawl’s edge and are worked into decrease stitches from the body. A row of violet flower buds and receptacles is worked followed [...]
Archive for the tag 'shawl'
September 19 2012
INSPIRATION: Milk Thistle Shawlette
- MILK THISTLE SHAWLETTE I heart Google Images. I do about 11 billionty Google Image searches a day for ideas, inspiration, research, and in some cases shopping. It’s a virtual playground for visual people like myself who lead with their eyes in making sense of the world. So when over the summer I had a [...]
June 22 2011
So Many W.I.P.S., So Much Time
I waited forever to have two months off so I can focus on crochet and now that the time has come, I’m dazed and confused as to what to attempt first. Start something new or tackle to huge pile of WIPS I have hanging around Chez NexStitch. I’m currently staring down at this shawl that [...]
August 11 2010
Sneak Peak: Shawl in Progress
Wouldn’t you like to know what this is??? Actually, it’s a shawl. And I’m only showing this lil’ bit. It’s a work-in-progress right now. It’s taking awhile to design because it’s fairly complicated. It’s a challenge. A fun challenge. Speaking of complicated, I had asked both my Facebook group and the folks at CLF on [...]
August 10 2010
Miami Scallop Shawl (The Remix)
Love the execution. Hate the style. 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 [...]
