Turquoise Blue & Brown Prayer Shawl

This is the latest prayer shawl I've made.  This is the one that is for someone that has been dealing with a serious illness and I've been anxious to get it finished so I could send it to her.  Of course, that means that I've had all sorts of interruptions but I'm finally finished with it.

Otter (in her Batman shirt) is my model.  This picture is darker than I'd like, it's a beautiful shade of turquoise blue with chocolate brown and has some silver highlights.

A close-up of the stitches.

It's the same pattern as the previous prayer shawls, foundation chain and the rows are a combination of double crochet with chain stitches.  It's about 60" long and about 18 - 20" wide.  It's Red Heart yarn, Red Heart has some new yarns that are very soft and not as rough as their standard acrylic yarn.  It was very silky and I enjoyed working with this yarn.  I chose it because of the color and general soft feel, then I realized that it was good old Red Heart.  I'm glad that Red Heart is jumping into the "better yarn" market.

Another Crochet Prayer Shawl

This is the same pattern as the prayer shawl I made for myself, but the yarn and colors are different.  This one is for Nana, I took the pictures early the morning I mailed it to her and had intended to have Otter model it but she wasn't feeling good that morning so I just took a few pictures of it "as is."

It's very soft yarn, Otter picked out the color and type of yarn.  The brand is I Love This Yarn and it is a color combination of sage green and cream.

(Blogger is acting up tonight, so the pictures are not necessarily where I want them!)

This is a closer shot of the rows.

It's the same combination of double stitch, chain 2, double stitch.

I'm very happy with the way it turned out.  This is an incredibly easy pattern and goes fast.

Crocheted Prayer Shawl (EDITED) (Twice)

This has already been on the main blog, but this is the reason I started thinking that we needed a blog just for crafts. So, I'm posting it on here.

It's not strictly a prayer shawl, the original pattern called it a wrap but I have also seen this pattern in a book of prayer shawl patterns. I do use it at church, but it's a multi-use shawl.

It's folded up here. It's almost a mile of yarn, I measured. I used two different colors, both are by Lion Brand which is one of my favorite yarn brands. This is chunky weight yarn.

Chunky weight is a larger yarn than most. It's easy to work with and I'm pleased with the way it turned out. This particular yarn is probably acrylic, I don't remember beyond the fact that it is not wool.

You can see how wide it is in this picture. I'm pretty tall, each color is two rows and there are 15 sets of each so it's 30 rows wide.

I made it a little longer than the original pattern, because I wanted it long enough to at least reach my legs. I get very cold in church and this shawl is very warm. EDIT: I'm glad I made it so long, because Otter has taken to borrowing quite a bit of it to cover her arms and legs in church - it does get cold in there and she seems very glad when I take it! And she says that it is very warm.

The original pattern called for it to be made in two pieces, left half & right half. But they were to be joined in a way that the join would be invisible and the rows would match. So I just made it the size I wanted in one piece. With some shawls, they look better if they are divided in the middle but that is mostly determined by the shape. This one is essentially a long rectangle, as opposed to the triangular shape of most shawls. If I wanted to have the row colors alternate on each half, I could make it in two pieces but I wasn't impressed with the way that would work. At least not with this yarn and these colors.

It was an easy project and one I really enjoyed. It's a combination of three different stitches and it went pretty fast.

(Second edit:  This was donated to Goodwill after a while.  It was just too big.  Next time, I'm not letting Billyboy decide the size!).