July 7th
I started it last night after I had decided to put another project aside for now. I liked this pattern and the name, seemed fun. It was going OK last night, I wasn’t crazy with the result but I decided to put it down, get some sleep and look at it in the morning. And it worked, I saw I had done some mistakes in previous rows and the result was uneven, not how it was supposed to look. So I took it with me at this new knitting meeting I attend at the Hornsey Library in N. London, I frogged it and started all over. It took me just about an hour to get where I was and I kept going, it’s going beautifully and really like the pattern (simple enough if you follow it carefully and not get absent minded). The yarn is lovely, both as a colour and a texture, really enjoy crocheting with it.

July 9th
The main body is finished. Working from one end to the other half of it was increases and the other half decreases (ironically, when I was learning to crochet I kept decreasing by mistake, now I have to follow a pattern to decrease, but I guess that’s some kind of progress). Right now it’s long but not very deep, the next step is to work the edging to make it deeper and I have enough yarn to do the three row edging.

July 10th
And the Shawlini is done! I spent my afternoon with it and a cup of tea by the window and finished the edging. I chose the three rows edging as I wanted to make it deeper, I had enough yarn for it and I think it looks lovely. The pattern is pretty simple and allows some additions (I didn’t do any but I will definitely do a couple when I do the shawl again), the yarn was a beauty, the photos don’t do justice to the true colour and that’s a shame (thank you again Luz-de-Luna for it!)

August 11th
I donated the Shawlini to the Tombola of The Nest Games 2012. I was so excited to see it won by the owner of the shop! She wore it all day, liked it a lot so I could boast about it around the shop!