Changing my mind.....yet again!

No further updates on Beverly's jumper, I'm afraid, but I will have to stop procrastinating soon and get it finished.  I haven't really progressed with the leftover Aran yarn blanket, either, as my butterfly brain has been rather preoccupied with yet more things to make 😏  At least the shawl is coming along, though!  

What I didn't tell you in my previous post was that I had actually started to make this shawl a few weeks back, using more yarn from the stash.  I can't even remember when I actually bought this yarn but I'd never got round to using any of it.  It's King Cole Authentic cotton mix double knit (50/50 cotton and acrylic) and I bought three 100g balls of a few different colours.  I had a look on the Wool Warehouse website and couldn't actually find a yarn called "Authentic", although they do have a King Cole yarn called "Simply Denim" which looks very similar.

Anyhoo, I decided to use up the Black Denim shade to make this shawl.....

and really wasn't keen on how it was looking, most likely because black is definitely not one of my favourite colours 😳  The photo above probably doesn't show the colour properly ~ the lighting in the dining room wasn't what you'd call brilliant, as we've now gone from heavy snow to gales and heavy rain instead!

Another of the colours in this King Cole batch was Red Denim, with red once again not being a colour that I am particularly fond of and one that I very rarely wear.  So what's a girl to do???

Well this particular girl decided to combine the two shades together to see how that looked 😄  Of course I then had to use a larger hook (7mm) and decided to use a different pattern too!  I remembered the corner-to-corner shawl I made for my Mum a few years ago and decided that was the way to go with this one.  I really like corner-to-corner as the work seems to progress at a very satisfying rate of knots.  Once it's reached an appropriate size I'll work across the top to make a straight edge.  I probably won't bother to give the other two sides of the triangle any kind of border, as it's just meant as an extra layer to keep the draught off my poor aged neck and shoulders 😉

I mentioned at the start of this post that I've been thinking about other things to make.....I've got three big projects in mind (and no doubt I'll get side-tracked by smaller ones, too, over the course of the year!) and will share the "big" plans in an upcoming post 😊