Progress

 I know that the current show I am working on is not perfect but that’s OK. I’m trying to learn new things and I would drive myself batty If I went for perfection on every project.  As long as a shawl looks good from 5 feet away. I have no problems whatsoever. Also, I am not going to point out any mistakes if you are a member of the knitting police you are not welcome near my new shawl.  

You may have noticed that I have stitch markers at the beginning of every row. I have already accidentally torn out this pattern twice. So I’m to the point that if I want to rip out a row or two, I don’t want to rip out the whole shawl. So after I complete a row, I put a movable stitch marker in. If I have to rip out the number of rows, I just removed the number of stitch markers for the number of rows. I want to remove and that way I won’t tear out the entire project by accident again. Wendy from my Knitting Group thought this was a good idea. Wendy is really good at crocheting. 

The shawl is in Tunisian crochet which is my new deep dive project. I love learning new things and Tunisian crochet is so similar to both knitting and crochet but totally different. I want to explore what makes Tunisian crochet so different than crochet and knitting. At this point in time I think it will be a 5 to 10 year project. That’s OK I have a lot of yarn that I can use for crocheting, knitting and Tunisian crochet.  I think projects combining two or more styles would make some wonderful one of a kind projects.  I also think that at some point I can add some of my hand spun yarn too. 

My current project is from a class that I took from Lori of Aklori Designs.  The pattern is called Tunisian Quick Crescent Shawl.