Mabel Barbara

My husbands grandmother turns 75 next week and i wanted to make her something beautiful and special.

Morag put up some gorgeous deep red sock yarn on her site Vintage Purls the other week and it was a perfect fit for Barbara. I wanted a pattern to could churn out quickly so went with my old faithful Ishbel pattern, this time trying a little different construction.

I used the small stocking stitch section and the large lace pattern, as i had seen other projects on Ravelry who had manged to get that size out of a single skein of sock yarn. I didn't unfortunately and had to cut out the last 4 rows in section D to make sure i had enough yarn for the cast off. i had JUST enough so lucky i didn't just keep going! I think it still looks beautiful and you can hardly tell :)

This is shawl #7 for my 10 in 2010 challenge!!!!! i am so proud i have made this many so far and i know i have many more than 3 left up my sleeve.

Blogtoberfest

Right.
I did it.
I signed up for this years Blogtoberfest :)

yeah yeah i knwo i vowed a couple of weeks ago to post everyday and it didnt happen but this time i actually have something to be held accountable to so here i am :)

I have had a very full couple of days with my birthday at the start of the week, crafty swap deadlines, and my mum comming to stay for a few days, phew!


I am lossing my shawl mojo at the moment though and it has taken me a whole week to finish the stocking stitch section on my third Ishbel



I am suing some of my new vintage purls sock yarn ( which is LOVELY to work with) but i am just not feeling the shawl love at the moment.

It has been nice to do some crafty business besides knitting the last week or so, and i will blog about that project tomorrow :)

The finished product.................

I FINALLY got outside long enough to take some photos of the shawl i finished last week :) (please excuse the freshly washed hair)






I will be putting in the post tomorrow!

Ishbel

It was my Little sisters 21st last week and i wanted to make her something special :)

I thought i shawl would be perfect but i was quite nervous about a full sized lace project after only knitting lace dishcloths before.

I used Touch Yarns deep red 4ply Merino




I will try and get some "action shots" off her soon