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Completed crochet cowl made from cormo & merino. I ended up adding additional edging details because the cast on and bind off didn’t visually match. I might do this again with different handspuns. Base pattern is by CrochetTheHighway.
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Finished handspun shawl. This ended up being washed/blocked multiple times because unknown to me one of the black welsh skeins still had dirt in it, which distributed dirt throughout the shawl when initially washed. There’s still some light staining in parts of the marled yarn, but it’s much much better than before.
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It’s getting there. I’m going to have to do at least 2 more repeats in addition to the pattern instructions so that the whole piece measures nicely square.
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I’ve been making doll knitwear for my critter friends from my handspuns! The bobble textured & grey shawls are actually a headscarf pattern – the buttons on the edges allow them to also be worn as a headscarf/neckerchief by a human. The green infinity scarf I just free-handed.
Rupert 
Freyja 
Idris Dolls… -
Well, I decided to start this crochet cowl (Scorpio Cowl by Crochet the Highway) because I wanted a relaxed project (which is what crochet is to me) … that is not what happened. I honestly have never frogged a project more in my life! First, the cowl size as written is massively small, 22”, which…
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Shawl is now finished and being blocked. Looking at it all finished I realised my yarn choices have accidentally recreated old tv static blips in shawl form
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I finally measured all the skeins that I completed over the last few months during school term time. There is a lot of yardage here.
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Finished red dorset horn waste wool, that was used for packing & I combed. It’s ended up a really lovely tweedy yarn
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Oof, doing the black lace section was a trial! My tension is clearly tighter than the pattern makers which cause the lace to be slightly firmer than the rest of the texture sections, which likely means it won’t block out as wide as the pattern image. To compensate I did 2 more repeats of the…
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Ok, I’m now ready to tackle plying all my wheel bobbins!! All of these are going to be chain plyed to hopefully get a nice light DK weight yarn.