Found my shawl pictures...

I finally found my pictures that I took of the shawls I made in December for friends (one was for my secret sister, one for a neighbor friend, and then one for my pastor's wife). One of the ladies on Ravelry had asked about prayer shawl patterns, although this isn't a prayer shawl pattern...I used it as one. My feeling is that you can take any shawl pattern that you fancy and make it prayer shawl...by praying over it while you are making it. You can check out the prayer shawl ministry here at: .

Anyway I thought I would try to add my pictures here on my blog too...it's a learning experience. You can get the pattern from Provo Craft's in their pamphlet/booklet entitled "Knitting with the Knifty Knitter II...A New Experience in Knitting". I bought mine at a Walmart store, back in the crafts department. The pattern is called "Metallic Shawl", it's located on page 10. This is done on the Yellow Knifty Knitter Round Loom, and I used a solid color of One Pound Caron Yarn and then a skein of Jo-Ann's exclusive Rainbow Boucle (I used the variegated blue, and then red on the other one..the solid color was black, because I thought it brought out the colors more in the variegated yarn). I also did not use the whole skeins on these...but I'm sorry I can't tell you how much was left over.

Some other added notes I made to the pattern, was that I made the shawl at least 58" to 60" long, then I added fringe to each side. As you can see I made it as long enough to go from wrist to wrist and around the shoulders, for me (because the friends I made them for were similar in height). I also did the single crochet bind off with 2 single crochet stitches on the slip stitches (ends) and then added my fringe.

For the fringe it called for 7" pieces of yarn for fringe, but here is what I did. My hubby had an end piece of wood that he had cut, and had me try it out for the fringe. I just wrap my yarn around it (both strands) 4 times and then cut off the top. Then taking those pieces and folding them in half, I take a large crochet hook (J or K) and make a slip knot with them (make a loop in the middle, then take both ends and pull it through). My board is 9" (vertical) x 6" (wide)...I use the 9" to make the fringe for this, because I like the long fringe. Plus I only do 1 set of fringe at a time...wrap it, cut it, and then put it on the shawl, this way I don't have alot of loose yarn laying around. I have also tried to take a picture of the end of the blue shawl to show the fringe and will try to add it here too.

I apologize...I don't have any idea on how to put pictures where I want them. So feel free to give me hints on how to do it, or where to look for the information. I just see you can choose left, center, or right...but it puts on top of your daily blog...instead of where the curser is in the text. Well have a good day. Happy Looming!