My Slow Project

 I always have a slow project that will take at least a couple of years to complete.  The picture below is my current slow project.  This is an Advent Calendar box by Cornbread and Honey.  It is a shawl of my own design, llllll—-llllll—llllll,  then I will put an edging around it in white.  The center dashes will be white also.  The pattern is included. See the above, the vertical lines and dashes.  Each vertical line is one color the dashes are white. I am doing this in Tunisian Crochet on a size H hook or 5 mm, with fingering weight yarn.  Yes, it is a very slow project.  I just started color number 6 out of 18 plus the white. I am elated that I finally got to the purple.  

I don’t work on this project everyday because of the size of the yarn and the small Tunisian Crochet Hook.  It requires intense concentration for every single stitch.  This project was frogged out once and I went up 2 needle sizes.  This is about as fine as I like to go.  You will also notice the Russian join on all the colors, this leaves a blend join and I am able to use all the yarn which will give me more wingspan when this is finished.  

You would be in the right to ask what the finished dimensions will be at this point.  I will say that I did not do the math to figure out what the dimensions will be. I did not even count the cast on stitches , just made sure it was close to my size. Since this is not going to be a published pattern, but a bespoke shawl just for me.  By the time I finish this it might even be a little bit bigger than planned.  I was losing sizes at a reasonable rate until I got sick in March 2024. I have found it hard to lose weight and inches while dealing with this issue.  Needless to say, I hope to get back to the point when I am losing weight and sizes again. Hopefully the shawl will right size with me.