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A group of friends and I recently made a prayer shawl for our dear
friend, Billie Finney. (Her photo is included in the picture to the
left.) Although we are strung out across the country, the shawl was
in everyone's home by the time it was finished. Some of us knitted on it,
and some of us just tied knots in the fringe for it. Everyone had
a part in the shawl making, though. The pattern is the Prayer Shawl
on the Lion Brand Yarns site.
This is the Windsor color, and it's made of their Homespun yarn on size
10.5 needles. The pattern is a variation of the garter stitch.
Nan Berg, Bev Robinson, Marge and Larrie Moses, Sharon Boggs, Marcia Spencer,
and I all worked on this shawl. The cute little cat pin was hand
made by Bev for Billie. Nan Berg took the photos and kindly gave
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| I enjoyed working on Billie's shawl so much, I decided to make another
one. So this time I chose the Delft color--still blue, but lighter.
As you can see, all of this yarn has an intriguing stripe to it.
The blues in this shawl were lighter, and they remind me of all the blues
in the sky. One of the strands of the darker blue in it is so pure,
so clean, it almost makes my teeth hurt to look at it. LOL!
I enjoyed making this one very much, as it was a gift for a friend--just
because. |
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This is a closeup of the shawl fringe. This yarn unravels like crazy,
so in making these two shawls, we tied knots at the end of all the fringe.
That allows the ends to frizz a bit and yet stay in control too. |
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I made this shawl for another friend out of the Caribbean colored Homespun
by Lion Brand. I had to take a break from blue! The
color is actually red and white, but it looks rosy in most light.
This pattern is very simple and goes very fast. I found that size 13 straight
needles make the work too heavy for my hands. I finally located some
circular needles in that size, and that was much better. If I were
making this again, I'd make it larger. This makes a small shawl.
The edging is crocheted, and in order to make it open up I had to steam
it. The pattern is on the Lion Brand site listed as the Gray Triangular
Shawl. Below are some closeups of the shawl. |
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