Pretty, both of them. The green sparkles will be nice for the holidays!
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Hey–I have a lot of shawls so I thought I would try some other projects in 2025.
I want to knit the Cowltopus!
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That’s fantastic! I want one too, how cool.
She posts all sorts of variations on Insta…the latest one is using a tweedy yarn…I love it! The new one is based off her Hoodla pattern shown below. She is on Ravelry and FB.
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Love it! And that sweater, ooh la la!
OK–I know spring is here and maybe shawls are not on the top of the list, but I am making a pocketed shawl to wear around the house since my husband likes to keep our home cooler than I like!
I am 7 repeats into a 10 repeat of the Harvest Moon shawl. It is a nice easy crochet once you learn that fancy triple twist stitch. I also plan to finish my Catalona Flower Shawl that I started last year.
Anyone else making a shawl?
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I love the texture of the stitches!
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I do, too, but it definitely is a yarn eater. It will take 7 balls of Brava superwash to make it with fringe. I may opt not to do the fringe, although I like the boho look of it with fringe.
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Started a simple shawl today. I’m not sure about the yarn for this project yet but we’ll see. It might be part of a tricky tray donation basket.
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I wasn’t loving how the colorway was working up, so I’m on the hunt for another project…
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Mosaic knit (ravelry link)
That’s incredible.
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Hi folks! I am working on a shawl (crochet) that’s unrelated to this shawl-along, but am stuck and need a little advice! Where is a good place to post my photos and questions?
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I would think that here would be fine. Shawls of all kinds welcome.
Lay it out and let’s see what the yarn doctors come up with. 
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Thanks! Basically, I’m almost finished with a shawl I’ve been making for myself with yarn I got on my Ireland trip last year, and I’m running out of it. But I’d like to make a border just along the long side, for two reasons. Here’s what I’ve got so far (I started with a pattern but modified it a lot in many ways that could definitely be seen as mistakes, so I’m not sure it’s fair to link it here lol):
Please pardon the messy room and my feet on the bed ;p
And here’s me wearing it, to illustrate one reason I want the border:
See the part sticking up behind my neck? Ideally I’d like to pull the whole shawl more forward, scrunching that part behind my neck, but then that pretty pattern at the top won’t be seen. With a border, it would mostly just be the border itself getting scrunched up.
Here’s my other problem:
As you can see, the edge with the ends that need weaving in is not at ALL straight, but that’s the edge that will be front and center when I’m wearing it. I thought maybe a thick border could help even it out.
That picture also shows all the yarn I have left. All but the green hank are colors already used in the shawl; that one would be adding a whole new color.
So, basically…
Do you think I should make a border?
If not, what can I do to mitigate the problems listed above?
If so, what colors should I use? And do you have a style or stitch or pattern you’d recommend? Should I do different height stitches like sc, hdc, dc depending on how the edge is wavy along the side, or will that highlight the wonkiness more?
Thanks so much for patience with me!!
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First of all, that looks great! I love the colors you chose and that it is a souvenir from a big trip. That’s awesome!
My opinions are below, and like any good (yarn) doc I’ll advise you to get second opinions- so paging Yarn Doctors, paging Yarn Doctors @AIMR @MistressJennie @photojenn.
I can’t remember if Doc @sheepBlue does crochet, but her design eye is legend so opinions there would be great, and same for @Immaculata.
Feel free to tag in others as you think of them, I haven’t had my coffee yet so I’m not working at top capacity. Oh! @Dooney is a crochet master, too. Ok, moving on:
When I make something that has uneven edges (I don’t know why, but for the life of me I cannot work back and forth and get consistent stitch counts!) I do just as you describe- big stitches for wide discrepancies, smaller for less obvious ones. I think you’re less in danger of it being too eye-catching because you’re planning to fold it in on itself anyways.
A great thing about crochet is the ease of experimenting. If it were me, I would probably start by using that green I have the most of and square off my wonky edge and then take that yarn once thinly around the whole to frame the triangle to see how it looks, especially as you mention that you don’t have it represented elsewhere in the shawl so that might be important to you. I don’t have a good pic anymore, but I had to do that with my Mutts blanket seen here on LC and if you zoom in you can tell the black side borders wobble a bit but even at high contrast it isn’t screaming, “she can’t count!”
Then, if I’m honest, I would take pics and overthink it for hours (at minimum) and frog it back to see what the red would look like. That probably doesn’t have enough to go around so it would be a collar-edge only experiment. The red would be more eye-catching, but also looks great with your coloring, and ties in with the four (I think) bands of it within the body of the shawl.
After doing that and taking pics I would scroll between the two versions and overthink both for a while and text my fellow crochet/yarn friends more times than is polite getting their opinions. (You’ll note that I don’t post a whole lot of finished things lol, all my projects take a million years!)
TL:DR- Experiment! Just don’t cut any yarns until you decide. You can try out a bunch of plans to see them IRL and rip them back to try others until ready to choose what YOU love best.
Good luck, and happy yarning!
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@AntBee 
You’re hilarious. Yes I crochet though it’s been a minute.
@roler My first instinct is to go with the green yarn you have. Your whole shawl is so scrappy, I don’t think it will feel out of place, and you won’t have to sweat any yarn chicken. For the stitch, I think some sort of picot edge would be nice, something like this maybe:
Then when you’ve finished stitching, a good block will also help even out stitches. Can’t wait to see it finished - it looks amazing already and what a beautiful souvenir!
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@roler Laura, your shawl is gorgeous! What a beautiful project to use up your souvenir yarn. The colors are so good together and will make the shawl very wearable as well as functional!
I think any of those colors would work, but I think your best bet is the green, but I see that you haven’t even started using it. I would be tempted to us it for a brand new project, maybe a hat or gloves.
I would start with the brownish ball to straighten out the edge. Like @AntBee said, using a combo of SC, HDC, DC as needed for the first row and then following with another row or two will make the fix nearly invisible . Then you can get a bit “fancy” and maybe stick in a different color row or two as you see fit. Like you said, most of that will be scrunched up around your neck area anyway, so nothing too fancy there.
I am glad you shared this with us here…we get a sneak peek of this beauty before you complete it!
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Thank you all so much for the great advice! I will experiment a bit, and I’ll definitely post when I’m finished!!
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Follow-up question! I’ve decided I definitely do want to make a border, but should I wash and block the shawl first to see how much I need to correct the edge, or would that mess it up?
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