Project #3

My third project was a shawl for my mom. We looked through my book and although she liked many of the shawls she decided to start with a simpler one (to my benefit) called "Feel Better". My plan is to make many more for her until she is sick of them. ;)

Here are the pictures of the shawl from the book. Now that I see the picture again I think I may have made my moms longer than it was supposed to be. 

Anyways, this shawl was really fun, and really easy to make. It was not easy at first though. I was determined to get this shawl right, and not have to improvise the way I did on my previous shawl. However, I had a lot of trouble with the first row. I would follow the directions and finish the row, but my stitch count was not what the book said it would be. I knew I was doing something wrong, but I could not figure out what it was. I was getting really frustrated after trying to figure it out for 1-2 hours. I called it quits, and decided to wait and figure it out the next day.

Well, the next day I was washing dishes and started thinking about what I could be doing wrong. I lie to you not, I asked God to help me figure it out and within a few minutes I realized that I was misinterpreting a certain part of the pattern description. I corrected that and what do you know I finally had the right stitch count! Finally! I was able to get going with the shawl. You may think God doesn't care about small projects like these, but you would be surprised. I know he helped my figure this one out.

I can't remember the exact amount of time I worked on this shawl. I think it was 1-2 weeks, but I know I did not get to work on it every night due to school and life... You know how that goes. I like to watch old English romances on Netflix while I crochet, so I probably went through about 5-6 episodes working on this shawl. That comes to 5-6 total hours. Either way, my point is that it really didn't take that long at all. I was surprised by how quickly it was finished, and how fun it was to make. I love the design, and my mom has really enjoyed wearing it.

Here are some shots of the final product!