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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Natalie Shrug
Pattern-writing for books is a funny beast. You pitch your idea, and when you're accepted your fingers and brain are a flurry of activity, and then you send off the fruits of your labor to be edited and published.
And then you wait and wait and forget that you even wrote a pattern and wait some more.
But then you get to see this!
My cute little pink shrug has finally come out to play, in Simply Crochet by Robyn Chachula!
Waaaaay back in July of 2010, Robyn approached me, asking for a pattern for a 1950s-inspired shrug. So I shot back a couple of sketches:
and we agreed that the more feminine cap-sleeves and scalloped edging would work best. So the yarn arrived and I got to work.
What, you don't call that work? :) Lucky me, most of the actual crocheting I did on this piece was during a road trip into Washington for a family reunion. I crocheted to keep my mind off of the treacherous drop outside my window on the way up to the viewing area on top of Mount Saint Helens, among other things.
And just like that, I was done!
It worked up pretty quickly, even for striking out in the dark with only a vague idea of what I wanted; and my favorite part is the scalloped edging.
If you like Natalie, or any of the other patterns you've seen in Simply Crochet, leave a comment on this post letting me know what YOU like to do with just one or two balls of yarn, and I'll choose a name at random next week to win a copy of the e-book! Good luck!
And then you wait and wait and forget that you even wrote a pattern and wait some more.
But then you get to see this!
My cute little pink shrug has finally come out to play, in Simply Crochet by Robyn Chachula!
Waaaaay back in July of 2010, Robyn approached me, asking for a pattern for a 1950s-inspired shrug. So I shot back a couple of sketches:
and we agreed that the more feminine cap-sleeves and scalloped edging would work best. So the yarn arrived and I got to work.
What, you don't call that work? :) Lucky me, most of the actual crocheting I did on this piece was during a road trip into Washington for a family reunion. I crocheted to keep my mind off of the treacherous drop outside my window on the way up to the viewing area on top of Mount Saint Helens, among other things.
And just like that, I was done!
It worked up pretty quickly, even for striking out in the dark with only a vague idea of what I wanted; and my favorite part is the scalloped edging.
If you like Natalie, or any of the other patterns you've seen in Simply Crochet, leave a comment on this post letting me know what YOU like to do with just one or two balls of yarn, and I'll choose a name at random next week to win a copy of the e-book! Good luck!
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