Finally, it's done! I've been working on this for two weeks now, and I absolutely love how it pretty it came out. This shawl is a gift for my sister. It's so warm and the colors are so pretty I am having second thoughts on giving it away.. hehe... The yarn I used for this project is the Ice Yarn Angora Gold Batik Maroon Pink. It is made in Turkey and is a 45% Angora 55% Acrylic combination. Very soft and perfect for shawls and other wearables. I bought them from Gantsilyo Guru Selections, a newly-opened online store of the Gantsilyo Guru, Trey Ajusto. The store opened on the 11th of August and I just had to buy some of those luscious yarn she has. I opted to use a simple V-stitch so that the self-striping colors of the yarn will be emphasized. It is the same stitch I used for the blue placemat in the above photo. For the edging, I wanted to put tassels but fearing that the future owner will not be extra careful with it, I made shell and picot edgings. So here are the stats:
Hook: 7/0 or 4.0mm Yarn: Ice Yarn Angora Gold Batik in Maroon Pink (3skeins); 1 skein=550m Measurements: 69" x 21" with edging All I need to do now is wash it, put on a nice wrapping, and off it will go to its new home... :) Happy! It's been a while since I last posted an entry here. This hooker has been very busy... with life and with crochet. A lot of unexpected things happened that had me crocheting and planning like crazy. Friends ordered crocheted items when I started posting pictures of my finished projects on Facebook. I will write a separate blog about this. Aside from crocheting, photography is also my passion. This week has been a busy one because we had to go to Manila for a prenup photography workshop facilitated by boyfie's friend, Commercial Photographer Winston Baltasar. And then, we had an unexpected photo shoot. White Knight Hotel, our favorite hotel, hired us to do the photos they will use for their brochures. When we got home to Batangas, we're scheduled to move in to the new house. So we had to pack and unpack the household. Boyfie had a little accident with a protruding nail so I bade him not to move a muscle and that I would do all the unpacking. So after three tiring days, the house is in order. We got a bigger house this time. There are three rooms upstairs and I was so excited the first time I saw it because I knew that finally one of my dreams will soon come true.. having my own craft room. And yes, it came true. It is only a small room but I am very happy about it because I have a place where I can crochet, store my yarns at and a quiet nook to hang out at. My very own private place. I love books, so much that at one point I had too many and I had to sort through them and pick out the ones I liked the best because there was just no space for them anymore. So I also put my remaining books in my craft room. I separated the craft books from the rest. They look so few.. hihi that it made me want to buy more crochet books in the future.. Uh oh...... See the closed closet doors? Those are empty. When boyfie looked at my room and saw the empty space... he said... "Uh oh... more yarn space.." Hahaha.
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