Oh yes indeedy, I have finished Mum's shawl.....shhh, we aren't mentioning that most of the work was already done 😉
It didn't take many more rows to get the shawl to the size I was looking for ~ I ended up with 80 altogether. If I had been making it for myself I would have made it somewhat larger but I think this is a good size for Mum. Working corner-to-corner as a triangle leaves the top edge jagged, of course, but I wanted it to be nice and straight. I had a trawl around to find a suitable pattern and came across just what I was looking for on Feet Up and Crochet.
I then worked half trebles (US half double crochet) round the entire shawl. I knew that I wanted to work a row of Lucy's bobble shell edging along the two "wings" of the shawl to finish it off, so had to decide which side was to be the inside and which the outside. I really liked how the half trebles along the top edge looked from this side of the shawl, so decided this would be the outside.
The bobble shell edging is very pretty and gives a subtle finished edge especially, as here, done in the same yarn as the body of the shawl.
Corner-to-corner is such a lovely stitch and is so easy to work ~ nothing complicated to have to remember, so perfect for doing in front of the TV 😄
The finished shawl, with the "wings" folded in so I could photograph it more easily LOL
I still have a lot of this yarn left ~ about 600g to be exact 😮 For now it's gone back in the stash but I expect I shall use it in another blanket at some point 😉
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