It is Finished!!!

Yay! I finally finished Nikki's shawl that I have been working on for a few weeks now. The shawl is called "Full Circle" and I got the pattern from my prayer shawl book that I posted about previously. The pictures of this shawl that are shown in the book really do not do it justice. Even the pictures I have taken do not show how pretty it is. Here are the book pictures to the right and below. They used a multi colored yarn which I could not find, so instead I used a dark green solid color yarn. What I did not know from looking at the picture was that the shawl is actually folded in half. That really confused me at the beginning because the instructions said you worked in a complete circle the entire time. However, I could not figure out how you would wear a circle as a shawl. DUH! Fold it in half and vuala you have a shawl lol.


I was really scared to make this shawl at first. It was 37 or so rows long and each row was different. The instructions stretched across 6 or so pages, and each row had about of paragraph of information. I told Nikki that I may or may not finish her shawl, but I would try. :)

Once I got started on the shawl I realized it may not be so bad. The rows were each different from the other, but it was usually only small changes made. Overall, the pattern was easy to follow, and I was able to watch my TV shows without messing up.

I did make one mistake that I had to rip out, and a few other small mistakes that no one will ever know but me MWAHAHAHAH!

The last 6 rows, especially the last 3 rows felt like they would never end. By then the rows were really long, and I was really ready to finish the shawl and give it to Nikki. Confession, part of me didn't want to give it away because it was so cool looking lol. I'll have to make one for myself one day.

Below are some pictures of the shawl. I wanted to get some shots of Nikki modeling it, but I forgot.  This mainly shows you the design, and detail. Enjoy!

 

These last two shots are the same, but with the flash on so you are able to see more of the detail in the shawl.

I would have posted all of this sooner, but blogger is really irritating when it comes to adding pictures to your post. I am thinking about looking at some other blog sites because this one is driving me a tad crazy. Any suggestions? As you can see the last two pictures show up on the left even though I have tried to center them. If I try to move them to the right they jump to the top of my post. It is very odd, and very frustrating.