Projects lost and forgotten

Recently I was searching for a partially made crocheted cardigan. I had a cold and I wasn't able to sleep, and I wanted to sit up in bed and crochet something.

I found my cardigan in the sewing room, in a bag along with a lost crochet book, lost yarn, lost stitch markers and a lost shawl.

Yes, a lost shawl.




It's called the Eva shawl, which Thornberry and I challenged each other to make back in September. I remember finishing it on our around my birthday in late September and being a little, ah, perturbed by the 70s colours in the shawl. And then I obviously shoved it in a bag with the cardigan, yarn, stitch markers, and book, all of which became lost and forgotten. And all the shawl had needed was a good blocking.





Oddly, the colours don't upset me as much as they did last year, and I really like the shawl. The shape of it drapes nicely around my shoulders, making them very warm although the yarn, Kauni Wool 8/2 Effektgarn isn't the softest stuff ever made, and in fact I would go as far to say that this yarn is scratchy and distinctly un-snuggly. Bummer.

And the forgotten cardigan? Take a look.

I have months to go on this. So slow going. And so heavy that it's hard to hold up when crocheting it. I get tired, and tired of it, very quickly.

My latest project is being made using some yarn I bought from my friend Suzy Hausfrau. She has started an online yarn store here in Canberra, importing European yarns. I fell in love with some little skeins of Holst Garn, which is a 2 ply merino and silk lace yarn from Denmark. It's a little stiff when you work with it, but apparently softens up once washed.

It's another shawl (because I'm addicted to them). The pattern isn't apparent until you pin it and stretch it out. I'm probably a quarter of the way through this pattern, which is a Japanese by Pierrot yarns. And I love the colour, even though everyone who knows me knows that I don't like purple. If it's any consolation, I also bought some baby alpaca from Suzy in deep burgundy red.

But I am loving this shawl, and the yarn and the colour. Maybe I need more purple in my life anyway.